The screening will be followed by a conversation with performers Brittany Bailey, Abigail Levine and Elke Luyten from the 2010 Museum of Modern Art exhibition “The Artist is Present.”
About the Film
Seductive, fearless, and outrageous, Marina Abramović has been redefining what art is for nearly forty years. Using her own body as a vehicle, pushing herself beyond her physical and mental limits––and at times risking her life in the process––she creates performances that challenge, shock, and move us. Through her and with her, boundaries are crossed, consciousness expanded, and art as we know it is reborn. She is, quite simply, one of the most compelling artists of our time. Elevating traditional documentary techniques with an artistic gloss befitting its subject, Marina Abramović The Artist Is Present is by no means a typical “art film.” With total access granted by Abramović and The Museum of Modern Art, Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present is instead a mesmerizing cinematic journey inside the world of radical performance, and an intimate portrait of an astonishingly magnetic, endlessly intriguing woman who draws no distinction between life and art.
About the Artists
Marina Abramović, a pioneer of performance art, has been using her own body as the subject, object, and medium of her work since the early 1970s. In 2011, The Museum of Modern Art, New York presented her retrospective The Artist Is Present.
Abigail Levine is a New York-based dance and performance artist. Her works have been shown in the US, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, Brazil and Taiwan. Abigail has performed most recently with Marina Abramović at the New York MoMA, Carolee Schneemann, Pope.L, Clarinda Mac Low, and Mark Dendy. She holds a Masters in Dance and Performance Studies from NYU.
Brittany Bailey, born 1989 and raised in North Carolina, lives and works as dancer/choreographer in NYC since 2008. Bailey has performed with Marina Abramović at MoMA (NYC), Michael Clark Company at the Tate Modern (London), and The Whirling Dervishes of the Mevlevi Order of America (Israel and Turkey). Bailey’s performance and dance works have happened in NYC at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Irondale Center, NADA Art Fair, The Merce Cunningham Theatre; in Europe at Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts de Belgique (Brussels), and Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg), among others. Bailey currently teaches her technique “The Dance Warm-Up” and collaborates with musician/composer, Bryce Hackford. Together they will be in residence at The Watermill Center as part of their residency program in March 2014.
Elke Luyten, originally from Hasselt, Belgium, currently lives and works in New York City. Luyten is a performing artist who has worked with Thomas Leabhart, Marina Abramović, Robert Wilson and Elaine Summers. She also maintains a diverse repertoire of solo work which has been showcased internationally at such venues as the REDCAT in Los Angeles, the International Conference on Performance Art Theory in Mexico, the Dream Shot festival in Belgium and Honen-in Temple in Japan. She has taught workshops at Pomona College in California, Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco, Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, Hippocampe Centre d’Etude du Mouvement in Paris, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Noore Tantsu Festival in Estonia among others.
This is part of The Watermill Center Film Series with public support from Suffolk County.
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