ORLAN, Abramović, Jonas, VALIE EXPORT in artpress Performance Interviews
The second volume of artpress's 'Les grands entretiens' series focuses on performance art's evolution beyond its 1960s origins. Pioneering figures including Marina Abramović, Joan Jonas, ORLAN, and VALIE EXPORT reflect on performance becoming a historical subject with increasing retrospectives. The volume examines how performance now questions spectacle itself, citing Gianni Motti's museum retrospective that showed nothing, favoring interventions outside art's boundaries.
Key facts
- Second volume of artpress's 'Les grands entretiens' series on performance art
- Features Marina Abramović, Joan Jonas, ORLAN, VALIE EXPORT
- Performance art has become a historical object with multiplying retrospectives
- Volume addresses performance's transformation beyond the exposed body
- Questions the form of spectacle itself
- Cites Gianni Motti's retrospective that showed nothing
- Motti privileges interventions outside the art field
- First volume covered the foundational 1960s period
Entities
Artists
- Marina Abramović
- Joan Jonas
- ORLAN
- VALIE EXPORT
- Gianni Motti
Institutions
- artpress
Sources
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