The Unbearable Slowness of Being
summary
A series of durational artworks are described with concrete measures: Marina Abramović screaming or dancing for up to 11 hours, sitting 100 days present at MoMA while visitors queueed (some waited two days, one sat all day); Abramović and Ulay breathe until one faints; Tehching (Lee) lives in a windowless cage for a year and runs a time‑clock that makes 365×24 hourly photos producing a stop‑motion film; Linda Montano ties herself to an artist for a one‑year six‑foot ribbon.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Time perception during Covid
- 1:59Marina Abramović early art
- 4:50Marina and Ulay endurance
- 6:50Marina’s MoMA solo
- 8:16Hsieh’s year in cage
- 10:45Hsieh’s Time Clock project
- 12:41Hsieh’s year outdoors
- 13:43Hsieh’s extreme art
- 14:27Here and Now in art
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