Is this what we fought all night to come home to?

"A sensational climax to a lifetime's public performance, stabbed and shot by a bearded fundamentalist, a message from the killer pinned by a dagger to his chest...a martyr"

5/21/10

Beauty hurts.

To create this “Death Self,” the two performers devised a piece in which they connected their mouths and took in each other's exhaled breaths until they had used up all of the available oxygen. Seventeen minutes after the beginning of the performance they both fell to the floor unconscious, their lungs having filled with carbon dioxide.

4/12/10

Never feel whole.

In 1988, after several years of tense relations, Abramović and Ulay decided to make a spiritual journey which would end their relationship. Each of them walked the Great Wall of China, starting from the two opposite ends and meeting in the middle. As Abramović described it: “That walk became a complete personal drama. Ulay started from the Gobi desert and I from the Yellow Sea. After each of us walked 2500 km, we met in the middle and said good-bye.”
Abramović conceived this walk in a dream, and it provided what she thought was an appropriate, romantic ending to a relationship full of mysticism, energy and attraction. She later described the process: “We needed a certain form of ending, after this huge distance walking towards each other. It is very human. It is in a way more dramatic, more like a film ending …
Because in the end you are really alone, whatever you do.”

3/21/10

I've been told that this will heal given time.

In this Transylvanian town, all the sheep are black - along with everything and everyone else. The residents drink great quantities of milk in the belief, according to one long-term resident, that it will at least "keep their insides white."

3/1/10

               NO MEMORY                  NO REMINDER                  NO LOVE AFFAIR                  NO MYSTERY