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Abramovic has teamed up with pianist Igor Levit for her latest performance piece at New York’s Park Avenue Armory:
“Upon entering the Armory, ticket-holders will be presented with numbered keys, which will lead to individual lockers installed in the venue’s spacious foyer. Inside a specific locker, each audience member will find an initial round of instructions (to surrender their cellphones, watches, computers, and other trappings of the distracted self). Then, in the Armory’s massive Drill Hall space, attendees will be given noise-canceling headphones before choosing one of the reclining deck chair-style seats (arranged in the round).
At first, there will be nothing at all in the auditorium’s makeshift center. And for 30 minutes, listeners will be required to wait, in silence and near-darkness. Meantime, at the rear of the hall, a raised, moving platform will slowly drag Levit closer to the audience. When the centimeter-by-centimeter approach of the musician and his instrument is complete, listeners will remove their headphones after a gong has signalled the appropriate time.
Only then will the Goldberg Variations begin.”
(via Marina Abramović’s latest project: presenting distraction-free Bach | Art and design | The Guardian)
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