a picture and a story
Day 61, Portrait 19 (6 min.)
“…I felt drawn to the chair opposite Marina like a moth to a light bulb.”
Day 61, Portrait 18 (14 min.)
“i can’t breathe normally - i keep catching on the exhale.”
Day 66, Portrait 14 (13 min.)
“The guy behind me told us he had taken some ‘Lucy in the sky with diamonds,’ which made me think, ‘He’s totally on LSD’ and ‘Wait, people still take LSD?’ (Ram Dass would probably approve!)”
Day 33, Portrait 29 (26 min.)
“You are not allowed to speak, you have to remain in the chair, you cannot put your hands up on the table, and you cannot bring anything with you.”
Day 2, Portrait 8 (73 min.)
“A big tin can rolled across the floor and a cone-shaped cage formed over Abramovic’s mouth and face.”
Day 42, Portrait 10 (33 min.)
“Drop, drop, just like that.”
Day 65, Portrait 21 (18 min.)
Given ≠ received.
Day 70, Portrait 19 (28 min.)
“I sat with Marina dressed as a bride the last Saturday of her performance.”
Day 51, Portrait 18 (7 min.)
“No lie, her visage was a disembodied object that hovered a few inches from her face-place.”
Day 72, Portrait 30 (9 min.)
“I would skip it originally because reminder of the Yugoslavia is often very painful rarely grotesque like thinking about car Yugo.“
