Sit with it…

I spent much of yesterday at The Artist is Absent, an event organized by a group of young artists, that brought together a wide range of people around the work of Marina Abramović. People were performing a number of her pieces from the 70′s in an atmosphere that was strikingly different from the official MoMA show I saw on Friday.

I’ve agreed to do some writing about the expereince for a catalog they’re putting out, but I’ll just say here that I found yesterday’s event so much more compelling than the experience on Friday. much of that was due to the lack of distracting video in the Absent show. Without that, it was possible to sit with the various performers in a way that was both relaxed and intense.