Performing the Gallery / Performing the Museum. Public Discussion with the artist.
Performing the Gallery / Performing the Museum. Public Discussion with the artist focuses on Abramovic's investigations of transformative quality of time in context of a gallery exhibition. The exclusive video material from Abramovic's innovative group exhibition in Manchester Whitworth Art Gallery, held in July, will be shown. The show began with an hour-long performance initiation with Marina Abramovic, leading up to a series of extraordinary encounters between artists and audience. Quite unlike anything staged before in a museum or a gallery, it provided a transformative gallery-going experience. The evening inaugurates Abramovic Studio at Location One. Beginning October 2009 the studio, curated by Jovana Stokic, involves artists from Location One residency program in engaging with performance art.