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The very honest and plain speaking Marina Abramović did the Rothchild Lecture at the RA ahead of her 50 year retrospective which will take over the place from Sept-Dec 2020. There’s still time to get in touch with her if you want to take part in a performance as some of the older pieces will be redone with new people.
For me, the funniest part of the lecture was when she was asked about failure and she spoke about one performance years ago (of how they can’t be rehearsed like a theatre piece because the actual performance is the exploration of the concept) and just as she was starting the piece realised “Oh no, this is awful and bad’ then had to continue on with it for 8 hours as had been planned.
Here she is pictured with Lord Rothchild with a backdrop of Thomas Lawrence’s ‘Satan summoning his Legions’. #marinaabramovic #contemporaryart #performance #performanceart

Marina Abramovic. Cleaning the house, 2007. Photo: Alastair Fyfe, courtesy of the Serpentine Gallery

The audience of the Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon 2007 participating in Marina Abramović's Cleaning the House (2007), at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen, of the architectural practice Snøhetta. Photograph: Alastair Fyfe. Courtesy the Serpetine Gallery, London

Look at what I just found.. a link between the Serpentine Gallery and John Brockman of the Edge, Jeffrey Epstein's pal https://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/serpen ... index.html

I recently paid a visit to the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens, London to see Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, a long-time friend with whom I have a mutual connection: we both worked closely with the late James Lee Byars, the conceptual artist who, in 1971, implemented "The World Question Center" as a work of conceptual art.

The walls of Obrist's office were covered with single pages of size A4 paper on which artists, writers, scientists had responded to his question: "What Is Your Formula?" Among the pieces were formulas by quantum physicist David Deutsch, artist and musician Brian Eno, architect Rem Koolhaas, and fractal mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot.

Within minutes we had hatched an Edge-Serpentine collaboration for a "World Question Center" project, to debut on Edge during the annual Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon, the weekend of October 13-14. The plan was to further the reach of Obrist's question by asking for responses from the science-minded Edge community, thus complementing the rich array of formulas already assembled by the Serpentine from distinguished artists such as Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Gilbert & George, and Rosemarie Trockel.

Edge Live in London

The Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon
10:00 am to 1:30 pm, Sunday 14 October

In addition to the online publication of "Formulae for the 21st Century," Edge was invited to program four hours of the twenty-four hour Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon. The event, which took place October 14th, was held in The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007, commissioned by Serpentine Director Julia Peyton-Jones and designed by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorson.

The session session featured live presentations of "table-top" experiments from zoologist Seirian Sumner (A Cooperative Foraging Experiment — Lessons From Ants), archeologist Timothy Taylor (The Tradescant's Art Experiment), physiologist Simon Baron-Cohen (Do Women Have Better Empathy Than Men), biologist Amrand Leroi (The Songs of Songs), geneticist Steve Jones (Some Like It Hot), physicist Neil Turok (What Banged? and The Morning Line), biologist Lewis Wolpert (How Our Limbs Are Patterned Like The French Flag), and playwright Marcy Kahan in conversation with psychologist Steven Pinker.

Marina Abramović: The Rothschild Foundation Lecture : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGa1h-FhQ80

Nicole Junkermann.. Serpentine Gallery in London https://archive.ph/CdUZU

Fixers was cordially invited to Buckingham Palace to mark the launch of a nationwide mission to get more young people involved in social action.

Prince Charles and the three main political party leaders - David Cameron, Nick Clegg, and Ed Miliband - officially launched the national ‘Step Up To Serve’campaign at the royal residence today.

The initiative aims to double the number of young people participating in social action by 2020.

The 24-hour Serpentine Gallery Experiment Marathon 2007, introduced by Julia Peyton-Jones and presented by Olafur Eliasson and Hans Ulrich Obrist, took place in the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2007 and featured experiments performed by leading artists, architects and scientists. The experiments explored ideas of time, space and of reality through models, vibrations and perception, investigating Eliasson's assertion that 'What we have in common is that we are different'.

WHAT IS YOUR FORMULA? YOUR EQUATION?
YOUR ALGORITHM?

Alun Anderson, Scott Atran, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Simon Baron-Cohen, Samuel Barondes, Gregory Benford, Susan Blackmore, Paul Bloom, Stewart Brand, John Brockman, Rodney A. Brooks, Sean Carroll, George Church, M.Csikszentmihalyi, Leda Cosmides, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, David Deutsch, Keith Devlin, Chris DiBona, Freeman Dyson, George Dyson, Drew Endy, Brian Eno, Dan Everett, J. Doyne Farmer, Richard Foreman, Howard Gardner, David Gelernter, Steve Giddings, Daniel Gilbert, Marcelo Gleiser, Alison Gopnik, Joshua Greene, John Gottman, Jonathan Haidt, Judith Rich Harris, Marc D. Hauser, Donald D. Hoffman, Gerald Holton, John Horgan, Nicholas Humphrey, Marcy Kahan, Danny Kahneman, Dean Kamen, Kevin Kelly, Rem Koolhaas, Bart Kosko, Kai Krause, Ray Kurzweil, Lawrence M. Krauss, Janna Levin, Seth Lloyd, Benoit Mandelbrot, Geoffrey Miller, Marvin Minsky, Oliver Morton, David Myers, PZ Myers, Tor Nørretranders, Mark Pagel, Irene Pepperberg, Steven Pinker, Jordan Pollack, Ernst Pöppel, William Poundstone, Eduardo Punset, Martin Rees, Lisa Randall, Matt Ridley, Carlo Rovelli, Rudy Rucker, Doug Rushkoff, Dimitar D. Sasselov, Gino Segre, Michael Shermer, Neil Shubin, George Smoot, Dan Sperber, Maria Spiropulu, Linda Stone, Leonard Susskind, Nassim Taleb, Timothy Taylor, John Tooby, Max Tegmark, Craig Venter, Alexander Vilenkin, Shing-Tung Yau, Anton Zeilinger

MaxxNY wrote: ↑Thu Aug 05, 2021 10:31 am She and her idiot boyfriend at the time walked the wall of China each starting at opposite ends, meeting in the middle. She is nutz.