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Performance Artist Mimics Performance Artist At MoMA
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 29, 2010
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This past Saturday performance artist Marina Abramovic met her match at MoMA, where she has set up her ongoing piece titled: "The Artist is Present." Ready to receive her visitors for the day, she was approached by a woman donning a similar look to her own; BombBlog reports that this guest "sat, to the bafflement of the museum staff and visitors, all day." Turns out this was Anya Liftig, a Brooklyn-based performance artist, and this was all part of her own piece, titled “The Anxiety of Influence."
This all comes on the heels of "The Other Artist is Present," a young man's piece in which he attempted to challenge Abramovic's stillness with words and other antics (he got tossed out of the museum by security). Liftig noted, "I felt the previous interventions were really aggressive and presumptuous. I wanted to operate within the piece as Marina had defined it to create something that was more ambiguous. I wanted to meet her on her terms and leave the interpretation of my action a little more open than the others." From what we can tell she mainly succeeded in pissing off other patrons, who had gotten up early to get a turn sitting across from the famous artist. [Via The Awl]
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