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https://www.barrons.com/articles/marina-abramovics-performance-the-life-goes-live-next-month-01600193557
Marina Abramović’s ground-breaking mixed reality performance piece, The Life, will go live as scheduled from Oct. 8-22 at Christie's London, before it’s offered as a highlight of the auction house’s evening sale of Post-War and contemporary art on Oct. 22.
During the 19-minute piece, the 73-year-old artist wears the same red dress she donned for her work The Artist is Present, which she performed in 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A hologram of the artist appears and paces around a roped off five-meter circle before evaporating into thin air.
The theme of the work is immortality, in Abramović’s own words, “because you are there, preserved forever.”
Unlike virtual reality, the mixed reality work allows viewers to watch Abramović performing via headsets, while still being aware of their surroundings, including gallery space and other visitors.
The Life premiered atLondon’s Serpentine Galleryin February 2019. Its auction on Oct. 22 marks the first time a mixed reality work has hit auction, and it’s estimated to fetch in the region of £600,000 (about US$775,000), Christie’s said.
The Life is offered by Tin Drum, inc., a London-based production studio and technology developer, in association with Abramović LLC.
https://observer.com/2020/09/qa-marina-abramovic-on-heartbreak-and-homecoming-a-new-documentary-about-her-life/
Observer: How did the opera go in Munich on Sept. 5?
Abramovic: It's a push of 30 years to realize it. It went through different phases- I wanted to make a film. But it was unrealistic because I wanted different directors to direct differnt scenes,Polanski, Lars Von Trier, Inarritu.
Just last week, Abramović performed her opera7 Deaths of Maria Callaswith the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, which is based on the famed 20th century opera singer and her personal love affair withAristotle Onassis who was then married to Jackie Kennedy. In the opera, Abramović pieces together the endings of seven operas Callas became known for, which basically amounts to seven tragic deaths; from jumping to drowning and strangulation
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