- 22nd May
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- 22nd May
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- 22nd May
2013 - 22
- 22nd May
2013 - 22
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2013 - 22
- 12th May
2013 - 12
Couples dancing in the street in Paris, 1950s.
(Source: pinterest.com, via thelostbritandjohnlennon)
- 12th May
2013 - 12
- 12th May
2013 - 12
- 12th May
2013 - 12
- 12th May
2013 - 12
Happy Mother’s Day !
Just like me (by Aman Dawadi)
- 1st May
2013 - 01
National History Museum, London, UK
(via Architecture / Arches, National History Museum, London)
- 1st May
2013 - 01
will be in hamburg in 20 days*-*
- 29th April
2013 - 29
Marina Abramovic meets Ulay
“Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. at her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.”
- 29th April
2013 - 29
The final performance of Marina and Ulay together was The Great Wall Walk (1988).
When Marina and Ulay lived in Australian desert with the Aborigines, they watched the report of astronauts who said that the only human made constructions that can be seen from moon are the Pyramids and the Great Wall of China. They concluded that the Great Wall of China was built not just as a defense from the Genghis Khan and intruders to China, but it was really more like a metaphysical structure, a replica of the Milky Way on earth.
Ulay as the fire, as the male, started his walk from the desert, and Marina started from the sea as a female. The original plan of the couple was to walk towards each other from either end of the Wall, to meet in the middle and to get married. However, during the eight years which it took for them to acquire official permission from the Chinese government, their personal relationship dissolved. Abramovi? says, ‘Each of us walked two and half thousand kilometers to meet in the middle and depart from each other and continue working as a single artist. It was very dramatic and a very painful ending.’
- 29th April
2013 - 29
Marina Abramovic, The Lovers (With Ulay), 1988.
Performance, 90 Days.
“We walked the entire length of the Great Wall of China.We started on 30 March 1988.
I started walking at the eastern end of the Wall, at Shai Hai Guan, on the shores of the Yellow Sea, Gulf of Bohai, walking westard.
Ulay started walking at the western end of the Wall, at Jai Yu Guan, the south-western periphery of the Gobi Desert, walking eastward.
We walked until we met.
After we both continuously walked for 90 days, we met at Er Lang Shan, in Shen Mu, Shaanxi province.
We each took a 2,000 kilometre walk to say goodbye.”
