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BoCA 2019 / Marina Abramovic, Spirit House
Friday, March 15th, 2019 @ 12:00 - 18:00
€3
BoCA – Biennial of Contemporary Arts
15 MAR – 30 ABR / Lisboa, Porto, Braga
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
15 MAR – 28 APR
Carpintarias de São Lázaro (Lisboa)
Serbia | Vídeo-Installation
Marina Abramovic designed the “Spirit House” installation in 1997 for a former municipal slaughterhouse in Caldas da Rainha. Now, 22 years later, the facility is presented in Lisbon. “Spirit House” consists of five videos that dialogue with each other, in which we see Marina Abramovic in different performances created for the camera: ‘Dissolution’, ‘Insomnia’, ‘Luminosity’, ‘Dozing Consciousness’ and ‘Lost Souls’. ”
In Spirit House” we find reminiscences of the artist’s previous works – we see her perform various actions, such as whipping her back until red or covering her face in extreme slow motion, alluding to recurring themes in her work, such as trauma, cultural memory or the concept of testing the body’s resistance to attaining a higher state of consciousness – but also more surprising and unusual experiences in the author’s lexicon – for example, to dance an Arab tango by herself, in one of the rare works in which the sound is present. There are signs of embryonic gestures here, as in “Luminosity,” in which we witnessed the performance that the artist originally conceived for video and which she later performed live in museums.
The revisiting of the work reveals the relevance of modernity present in Abramovic’s aesthetic program, in an overwhelming and disconcerting testimony of the visionary dimension of her work that for decades has been asking questions and issues that today are again on the agenda, such as pain, spiritual determination, presence intensification, transcendence of the body, sacrifice, the feminine … “Spirit House” refers to the inextricable unity of body and mind, in a constant challenge that has marked the artistic journey of one of the most celebrated, striking and controversial figures in the contemporary art scene, the protagonist of the performance art revolution.
15 MAR til 28 APR
THU TO SUN, 12H00-18H00
SAT, 12H00-18H00
3€
Vernissage
15 MAR, 19H30-21H00
With BLACK dj set
Free entrance
Day 15 MAR, from 10:00 p.m., watch the DJ set by BLACK and at 11:00 p.m., the great performance of NIDIA, at the opening party of the BoCA biennial.
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