Sublime

The Artist Is Present.

Marina Abramović,

The Hero, silver gelatin print, 2001/2008

It opened a door for me, into the plakar of my unconscious.

vivants

The photographer Marco Anelli, who spent every minute of the 736 hours of The Artist Is Present in that atrium, taking pictures of every single one of the more than 1,500 people who sat across from me,

Why don’t you just do in the MoMA atrium what you did in Japan with Ulay—except that instead of Ulay sitting across the table from you, it is the public? Now you’re alone: the public completes the work.”

Very early on I realized the most amazing thing: every single person sitting in that chair across from me left a specific kind of energy behind. The person left; the energy stayed.