NEW YORK -- Some visitors to a new exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art are being asked to leave because they are touching nude performers.
The performers featured in Marina Abramovic's new exhibition have complained of being pushed, prodded and poked by some patrons.
The museum acknowledges that it has had problems with some visitors touching the live art. It is declining to talk about specific cases, but says visitors caught doing it are escorted out.
The exhibition opened March 14 and presents a view of Abramovic's career over four decades.
It includes nude performers standing in a narrow doorway that visitors can pass through. Elsewhere, a naked woman reclines with a fake skeleton on top of her. Other live performers are clothed.
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I personally think this is ridiculous. Shouldn't it work both ways. The point of Abramovic's piece is to make people have to brush up against nude people, essentially to make them uncomfortable. Why can't it go both ways. If Abramovic had any balls she'd stand up for the rights of the MoMa patrons to poke and prod as they please. Or is it, "I want to challenge you and make you uncomfortable but you have to be passive. You can't play back."
I don't think I like Abramovic.
3 comments:
i feel ya
i feel ya back... just not when we're in the MoMa!
not with you, pokers. i think that when they perform these works they are accepting whatever comes with being the object. i think its interesting how it can reveal the disgustingness of some people.
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