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Marina AbramoviÄ‡’s Top 50 Time Hogs; (Women sit around a lot)

Dan Nguyen — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:48:08 +0000

OK, now it’s time to arrange the participants in the MOMA’s “Marina AbramoviÄ‡: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set by number of minutes each person stared at Abramovic. The Paco dude who went about a dozen times is the only person, apparently, to have stayed the whole day. It’s interesting to read the comments on the portraits of the long-suffering sitters; some people are understandably pissed to have been behind them.

Surprisingly, women made up the vast majority of the top 50 sitters; 37 by my quick visual count. Just a statistical fluke? Does the MOMA have a higher base of female visitors? Did females identify more with the female artist?

(One of Marina’s photos is mistakenly labeled, which is why my script placed her in this list…too lazy to fix right now)

See my list of the top 200 most popular portraits from Marina’s exhibit.

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The Most Viewed Portraits: Marina AbramoviÄ‡: The Artist Is Present, the MOMA

Dan Nguyen — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:40:32 +0000

Thought it’d be fun to see the 200 most viewed portraits on the MOMA’s “Marina AbramoviÄ‡: The Artist Is Present” Flickr set. So I wrote a scraper to collect each portrait’s stats, including page views. A number of celebrities participated in the marathon performance art exhibit, including Sharon Stone, Rufus Wainright, and Bjork. Other top people include the guy who showed up a dozen times. And children and pretty females.

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Marina AbramoviÄ‡ Melts Before Your Eyes

Dan Nguyen — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:54:49 +0000

Wrote a quick scrape of the Museum of Modern Art’s gallery of Marina AbramoviÄ‡’s “The Artist is Present”. This is Abramovic’s portrait for the last 68 days (I guess the upload isn’t complete yet).
(Update, all 72 days are up, I’ll get around to updating this. Number 72 is a doozy)

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Marina AbramoviÄ‡’s Last Sit at the MOMA

Dan Nguyen — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:36:22 +0000

Today was the last day of the phenomenal performance art retrospective by Marina AbramoviÄ‡ (“The Artist is Present”). I missed the hijinks, and it didn’t make me cry, but I’m wondering if I will ever enjoy an exhibit at the MoMA as much as AbramoviÄ‡’s. Since its opening week, I’ve seen it at least a half-dozen times, each time noticing something new (some of the exhibits are video recordings as long as an hour).

It was the type of art that sounds like attention-seeking drek if you try describing it (“She’s naked and she walks into a wall really fast. She’s naked and she cuts a pentgram in herself. She’s naked and she dances until she faints!”). But the MoMA did a masterful job of arranging her work; what could’ve been a simple cheap thrill (like brushing past two naked models to get into the exhibit) became a profound and sensical ensemble of her life’s work.

The New York Times describes a brief roundup of her work (the author, Holland Cotter, is dismissive of the MoMA’s restaging of her work, mostly because Cotter thinks that the unpredictability of Abramovic’s art is what gave it its power. I’d be inclined to agree if I hadn’t heard of her before now):

Her solo work from the early 1970s was hair-raisingly nervy. She stabbed herself, took knockout drugs, played with fire. For one piece she stood silent in a gallery for six hours, having announced that visitors could do anything they wanted to her physically. At one point a man held a gun to her neck. Her eyes filled with tears, but she didnâ€™t flinch.

In 1976 she started collaborating with the German artist Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay. Some of their performances were punishing athletic events, as they slammed their bodies together or into walls. Others were almost aggressively passive. For a piece called â€œImponderabiliaâ€ they stood facing each other, nude, in a narrow doorway in a museum. Anyone wanting to go from one gallery to another had no choice but to squeeze awkwardly and intimately between them.

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