Linsey Dawen Mc Kenzey

Marcela Levi, Brazil

In-organic (2007)

Synopsis: Twenty feet pearl necklace, a embalmed beef head, hair and invisible to the back of a bicycle light are objects -mejor dicho, subjetos (objetos desplazados, desfuncionalizados y subjetivados)- que Marcela Levi utiliza en la performance.

moments of the performance

In-organic not use movement as a mere display but tries to frame it within a discourse.

Although this piece has some special moments paused not make it easy for the public, is an example of good writing. The scenes unfold with both delicacy and movements of objects as used in the right measure to create a set full of aesthetic and semantic coherence. Ie not even need anything left over, everything is linked together and the end of the work emerges a clear and strong message.

The artist uses a few objects, only a stuffed bull's head, a very long string of pearls, a dress and a flashing bicycle. Without doubt, this is commendable restraint. With these few items and timely use of music, Marc develops a series of moves and related actions a minimal narrative. In the interior of Sao Paulo, the Cowboys choose their brides pouring the rope around the neck like cattle. They like them as well. This Hitori is repeated and finally tells a different story. In the interior of Sao Paolo, there was a murder and the photographer who covered the funeral won an award for the story. A mother had lost her son in a shooting and watched her body. The photographer took the picture without flash to give greater naturalness and realism to the scene. They like them as well. This parallels the end of the story highlights the sensitivity of cork from the violent Brazilian society.

Marcela Levi the end of the debate insisted that his play does not revolve only around a feminist discourse. It is true that at the bottom of the overall situation of society, not just women. However one of the greatest culprits in this situation is perhaps a brutal mentality that is linked largely to the masculinist culture. So maybe it is a feminist piece, in the best sense of the word that concerns us all.

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"The artist is present" by Marina Abramovic

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With the title The Artist is Present ( The artist is this ) in the MOMA , Abramovic is the subject of most retrospective that has been devoted in America, recognizing, of course, especially in his role as innovative performer . why one of the highlights of the exhibition will be his presence in a series of artistic interventions in which will use your body as a subject object and medium to explore their limits niv the physical and mental.

It will reprise one of his most memorable performances, imponderabilia , presented in 1977 . In the the man and woman stand naked facing each other leaving a narrow space between the stockings should go here the viewers who want to participate, the igiendo which of the two wants to bring more. But besides all this s interventions in the sample exhibit through photos or videos of the era in which they began to perform.

is scheduled every day artist offers a display, so that total is expected to spend over 700 hours to show various performances. The longest of the pieces will be here the the where Abramovic sits alone at a table passively inviting people to sit in front of the the all the time you want. Yes, always within the opening hours d the museum. This and other creative interventions can be viewed live via web d the museum. "

Abramovic slashing was recorded again and again between his fingers, lying under a ski the ethoxyquin and causing it to be stirred to the sound of your breathing, "posed nude in front of a museum face to face with the German Laysiepen Uwe Frank (known as Ulay), who was his artistic partner and lover for twelve years. If the public wanted to go through here the door had to squeeze inevitably between their two naked bodies. Years later, fans were at opposite ends of the Great Wall China and walked one after the d other. For the three months were found, separated forever and each went its own way.

A Marina Abramovic seems to like to underline its current isolation charismatic this retrospective which mixes documentary, the virtual and the unreal. There will be projections of his old performances but also recreations of the same by others.

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view live performance at MoMA

until May 30, 2010