My first reaction to the photo of the man carrying the two huge rocks was that it was an inventive torture technique. What in the world could possibly make me think that.
You know, I saw the show at MoMA and found it moving and uncanny, even something like uplifting. I wouldn't say she stared at people blankly. The two chairs were within a cordoned-off space that people could walk around. Within that space there was sustained attention, and the volunteers who came to sit with her became part of that and participated in it. The onlookers could pick up on it as well, though many didn't. It certainly was a feat and no doubt grueling. That part I don't get. I would have found it just as moving if the sessions had been much shorter.
I had various reactions to her show. I was gobsmacked by her will and puzzled by both her and MOMA's motivations. I found the event impressive, bizarrely reverent, grim, and pretentious. Barnum & Bailey meets high mass. I didnt have the social guts or intellectual confidence, but I was taunted by a desire to sit down across from her and slowly eat a big bag of noisy potato chips.
Haha. That would have been very Terry. But I'm glad you didn't do it. The MoMA show was in keeping with her other performances, in which she did things like like down with snakes or allow people to carve on her with knives (some did). She must live the situations she creates. I thought this one was especially poignant because of the participation of others. The long dress and the long hours seemed unnecessary to me, but still.
My first reaction to the photo of the man carrying the two huge rocks was that it was an inventive torture technique. What in the world could possibly make me think that.
HA! (That was a sarcastic "HA".)
You know, I saw the show at MoMA and found it moving and uncanny, even something like uplifting. I wouldn't say she stared at people blankly. The two chairs were within a cordoned-off space that people could walk around. Within that space there was sustained attention, and the volunteers who came to sit with her became part of that and participated in it. The onlookers could pick up on it as well, though many didn't. It certainly was a feat and no doubt grueling. That part I don't get. I would have found it just as moving if the sessions had been much shorter.
I had various reactions to her show. I was gobsmacked by her will and puzzled by both her and MOMA's motivations. I found the event impressive, bizarrely reverent, grim, and pretentious. Barnum & Bailey meets high mass. I didnt have the social guts or intellectual confidence, but I was taunted by a desire to sit down across from her and slowly eat a big bag of noisy potato chips.
Haha. That would have been very Terry. But I'm glad you didn't do it. The MoMA show was in keeping with her other performances, in which she did things like like down with snakes or allow people to carve on her with knives (some did). She must live the situations she creates. I thought this one was especially poignant because of the participation of others. The long dress and the long hours seemed unnecessary to me, but still.
Good Grief ! What humans feel they have to do to ( Support?) them selves! Celina
Yes. Some make a small fortune and others barely, barely scrape by. Some are lionized, others scorned.