Weell… What have we here…

SUMMARY

The thoughts of an artist who after making it through all the cuts of an audition for Marina Abramovic’s “Nude with Skeleton”, refused the part.

Her disappointment on how performance artists are thought of and treated in relation to safety and personal comfort-discomfort in Live Art performances but also durring

auditions and the rehearsals. Here urge to others to THINK of the situation.

She decides to speak up and it turns out a lot of others felt the same way but needed a push to speak up…

Here the QUOTES  are part of the summary for me…

“When we as artists accept or reject work, when we participate in the making of work, even (or perhaps especially) when it is not our own, we contribute to the establishment of standards and precedents for our work and all who will come after us.”

It speaks for it self.. We need to consider the impact our artistic actions have and the effect, be it direct or indirect, our art and our choices have. Art has become political, in the sense that it has evolved beyond the aesthetic and virtuosity and into a way of expression and protest.

 “The cult and charisma surrounding celebrity artists”

It seems like such a dark and at the same time bright phase… It has a Gothic quality for me for some reason… It reminds me of rock stars. Of living life to the limits to have even a glimpse or spend just a moment in the shadow of a Star…