Master Valie Export

Aktionshose:Genitalpanik (Action Pants: Genital Panic)


"In her 1969 performance Aktionshose:Genitalpanik (Action Pants: Genital Panic), EXPORT entered a porn cinema in Munich with her hair in disarray, wearing crotchless pants, and carrying a machine gun. Striding up and down the rows of theatregoers, she brandished the weapon and challenged the male audience to engage with a "real woman" instead of with an images on a screen. Through these acts of artistic daring, EXPORT challenged the objectification of the female form by confronting voyeurs with a body that returned the gaze."

Wikipedia

Performing at Tate Modern

Performing a FBI Agent for the piece "Spinoza in Las Vegas" of the artist Sturtevant.

Solo-Stitched (autobiographical postmodern attempt)

The Master's life and a cardboard box
A devised autobiographic theatre piece. It uses the elements of storytelling, memory, multiple narratives, performing the self and executing an action.

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

The Master Performing Gender Issues

Master Castellucci

Solo

The Master in Hyde Park rehearsing  for is Solo.

A post-modern autobiographical narrative.

The story of a scar when he was about three years old.

The First Cold

The Masters Vehicle

Why a bycicle?

One must find a way to move in the busy roads of life.

One must one with the environment.

One must have fun.

One must travel in the fastest way available in the city. 

And finally because public transportation is to expensive...

We are used to making work that borrows stories from our own lives and other's people's lives. We're used to making work that strays into the grey area between the truth and fiction, memory and imagination. This is what we do: work that incorporates documentary detail and fiction but doesn't bother to point out which is which.

Alexander Kelly (Kelly 2000:49)

The Master's College

My new Home!

The Lovers - Art and Love

"We each took a 2.000 kilometer walk to say goodbye" Marina Abramovic

In the history of performance art there is one famous couple Mariana Abramovic and Ulay. They have worked together between 1976-1988. Their work has been a big influence to performers and artists from all over the world.

In 1988 M. Abramivic and Ulay decided to end their relationship and to do one last work together. This Performance would put an end to their love and artistic colaboration.

The Lovers - The Great Wall Walk

Performance: 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,Shan Hai Guan, on the shores of th Yellow Sea, Gulf of Bohai, walking westward.

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.

Mariana Abramovic

LONDON CLUBBING

The

Master

 with

 his

 friends 

Marina

 and

 Ricardo

 London Clubbing

Master's Love

This week I saw LOVE

LOVE was in the National Gallery

LOVE was for free.

But I decided to see LOVE alone.

In the end I didn't like LOVE that much...

Master's Neighbourhood

Do ‘Little Portugal’

There are 27,000 Portuguese people living in Lambeth. Walk along the South Lambeth Road between Vauxhall and Stockwell in the early evening and you’ll find the atmosphere is almost as much Lisbon as London. It’s no wonder the area, a thriving barrio with many bars, cafés and restaurants, has been dubbed ‘Little Portugal’. Close by, the Madeira Pâtisserie, under the railway arches near Vauxhall station, supplies Portuguese baked goods to many of London’s cafés and its custard tarts, pastel de nata, are heaven.

Time out

London cycling

Everyone uses a bike here. It's cheap, good for the environment and for you're health. But it's not easy, sometimes even scary, for instance when big bus or truck passes bye, when you read that a biker died in some accident... Then you think: it's time to cycle with caution. 

Guess the Master's Question and win a million Pounds

Vauxhall

Highligths: 

1-There is a significant Portuguese community; many Portuguese restaurants and bars are located in South Lambeth Road and the surrounding area.

2-Many of its streets were destroyed during German bombing in World War II

3-Vauxhall the gay village after Soho

4-MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross

 So Where are the London ...?

Master Calle

A Master must Homage Great Masters:

 Sophie Calle the Master of Autobiographical Art

Interview
He loves me not
When a boyfriend dumped her by email, French artist Sophie Calle asked 100 women to read it - and became the star of the Venice Biennale, reports Angelique Chrisafis
0. Angelique Chrisafis
0. The Guardian, Saturday June 16 2007
0. Article history
Picture this. You're one of France's best-known living conceptual artists. You're 51 and visiting Berlin. Your mobile beeps, it's an email from your boyfriend. In a hideously self-absorbed message about human emotion, he dumps you electronically, saying it hurts him more than you. He signs off: "Take care of yourself." You're heartbroken. Then you think of its potential as art.
Sophie Calle has filled the French pavilion of the Venice Biennale with a praised exhibition about her emailed dumping letter. Over two years later, she distributed the missive to 107 women professionals, photographed them reading it and invited them to analyse it, according to their job. The ex's grammar and syntax have been torn apart by a copy editor, his manners rubbished by an etiquette consultant and his lines pored over by Talmudic scholars. He has been re-ordered by a crossword-setter, evaluated by a judge, shot up by a markswoman, second-guessed by a chess player and performed by actress Jeanne Moreau. A forensic psychiatrist decided he was a "twisted manipulator". The temple to a woman scorned is entitled "Take care of yourself" (Prenez soin de vois), immortalising lines that Calle, if she hadn't had recourse to the international art world, might have read again and again in tears.
"The idea came to me very quickly, two days after he sent it," she said. "I showed the email to a close friend asking her how to reply, and she said she'd do this or that. The idea came to me to develop an investigation through various women's professional vocabulary."
At first it was therapy; then art took over. "After I month I felt better. There was no suffering. It worked. The project had replaced the man."

The Masters non-availability

Juliete Binoche: 'I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life'

Master: Sorry my darling  Juliete. But the Master is determined to stay away from love. To become a Master one must be ready to live without love

Master's Projects

A true Master is always looking at reality seeing art.

Collaborative Response is a performance created between persons living in different countries that create responses to the others proposals.

Speed Dating started with an email from a friend that was living in London. I was in Lisbon preparing to move to London. I was looking for a job and a house. He wrote “existe uma serie de websites para houseshares e trabalhos, um dos mais populares e www.gumtree.com la consegues procurar casa, trabalho e ate namoradas!!!”. I thought he was joking, but he wasn’t.
In London I discovered that you find ads for dating everywhere: facebook, time-out even in the guardian…
I’ve never dated before… I just know dates from Hollywood movies… So I decided to discover this cultures so different from my own dating. What is behind dating: loneliness, ability to know other people, love, sex… How does a person relate to dates when he only knows then from movies.

Lisbon Calling
A performance about identity
A performance about Lisboa
A performance away from Lisboa
A performance about identity

Collaborative Response

Create a Response to the object you’ve seen. This may take whatever form you choose: a description of a performance, a painting, a list, a puzzle, a proclamation, etc.

Speed Dating

Date: a social or romantic appointment

Questionnaire

1- What is a date?
2- How many dates do you have a month?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) More
3- How do you find your dates?
a) Internet
b) People you know
c) Friends of friends
d) People you meet in bars, or other social places
e) Other
4- What’s a blind date?
5- What are you supposed to do in date?
6- What’s expected at the end of the first date?
7- At the end of the second?
8- At the end of the fourth?
9- At the end of the fifth?
10- How many people can you date at same time?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
e) As many as you can
11 – What’s your average?
2- What are you looking for in a date?
a) Meet people
b) Get laid
c) Fall in love
d) Other

Lisbon Calling

Lisboa is situated at 38°42' north, 9°5' west, making it the westernmost capital in mainland Europe.
It lies at the point where the river Tagus flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
Lisboa is the city of the seven hills.
Lisboa is made of blue bright skies.
Lisboa is long big summer days.
Lisboa where the trams ride up in clouds.
Lisboa is the city of poets.
Lisboa is where I was born.
Lisboa is home.
But it’s not this Lisboa we are going to talk about tonight.
We’re going to talk about “Lisboa” the coffeeshop in London.
We’re going to hear the people that go to “Lisboa” and can’t live without it.
We’re going to talk about portuguese custard tarts (pasteis de nata).
We’re going to discuss identity and what makes me Portuguese.

What is Devising?

The path of a Master is mainly finding the right questions?

Devising is:

a social expression of non-hierarchical possibilities, a model of cooperative and non hierarchical collaboration; an ensemble, a collective, a practical expression of political and ideological commitment; a means of taking control of work and operating autonomously; a de-commodification of art; a commitment to total comunity; a commitment to total art; the negating of the gap between art and life; the erasure of the gap between spectator and performer; a distrust of words; the embodiment of the death of the author; a means to reflect contemporary social reality; a means to incite social change; an escape from theatrical conventions; a challenge for theatre makers; a challenge for spectators; an expressive, creative language; innovative; risky; inventive; spontaneous; experimental; non-literary.

in Devising Performance- A Critical History
Deirdre Heddon and Jane Milling



And never expect much from the answers!!!

The Master's Kind of Art: Work No. 850

"Work No. 850 centres on a simple idea: that a person will run as fast as they can every thirty seconds through the gallery. Each run is followed by an equivalent pause, like a musical rest, during which the grand Neoclassical gallery is empty.
This work celebrates physicality and the human spirit. Creed has instructed the runners to sprint as if their lives depended on it. Bringing together people from different backgrounds from all over London, Work No. 850 presents the beauty of human movement in its purest form, a recurring yet infinitely variable line drawn between two points."

"In Palermo we went to see the catacombs of the Capuchin monks. We were very late and only had five minutes to see it all before closing time. To do it we had to run. I remember running at top speed with my friends through the catacombs looking desperately left and right at all of the dead people hanging on the walls in their best clothes, trying our best to see it all... it was a good way to see it. It was that kind of delirious running which makes you laugh uncontrollably when you're doing it. I think it's good to see museums at high speed. It leaves time for other things."
- Martin Creed

Flatmates 3- Lourenço

Lourenço is an architect that works near Tate Modern. He’s a party guy who loves to drive is bicycle thru London after a few pints.

Flatmates 2 - Diana

The person we call Diana is a political activist. Her true identity is a secret to us for our own protection. After working in Colombia, Sri Lanka and other parts of the world she decided to do a sabbatical pause for a MA in Drama and Dance Therapy.

Flatmates 1 -Marina

Marina is a dangerous MA dancer and choreographer, well known for her heartbreaking charms in these foreign lands.

Flatmates

Master's Rules: To become a Master one must find Mates, FLATMATES.

Vauxhall

My new Neighborhood...

Vauxhall is home to an ever-increasing number of gay bars and nightclubs, such as Area, Barcode, Chariots, Crash, The Eagle, Factory, Fire, The Hoist and the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, as well as other venues often holding special events for gay clubbers, such as Club Colosseum, Hidden and Renaissance Rooms. The aforementioned Royal Vauxhall Tavern dates back to at least the late 1800s, and was for many years a traditional English music hall and cabaret venue. In recent years the building has come under constant threat of buyout and demolition from property developers, as it stands alone on a prime piece of grassland adjacent to Vauxhall railway station. However, the pub was bought in 2004 by sympathetic owners who have announced, "business as usual".
Vauxhall was originally the home of the more underground gay clubs with the arrival of Crash in the 1990s. Over the years, more clubs and gay businesses have followed Crash's lead by opening up in the railway arches underneath the main line out of Waterloo Station. The burgeoning club scene and the lure of the more trendy railway arches have made Vauxhall a prime destination for businesses to open up in, including London's only exclusively gay gym, Paris Gym, another branch of Chariots gay sauna and Barcode (sister bar venue of the same name in Soho). The area is fast earning the nickname "Vauxhall Gay Village".
Before Vauxhall earned its reputation as a gay village, it was regarded among the underground gay club scene as the place to go to avoid the more commercial nights elsewhere in central London. However, the market has become more and more lucrative with the arrival of more venues and more nights, and Vauxhall has been criticised as becoming increasingly commercial, diluting its once underground appeal. But the demise of other club venues in London, such as Turnmills, the Astoria and The Fridge, have led to the gay club scene to become more centralised in Vauxhall, turning it into an alternative destination from Soho for gay people to socialise. Vauxhall has also become colloquially known as "Voho" (a consolidation of the names Vauxhall and Soho) within the gay community, due to the emergence of Vauxhall as a gay village after Soho.

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Master's Night Outs

Master's Rules: Life is no good without fun.

After going out to a few pubs, the Master decided to embrace the nightlife.
Friday the Master got wasted in Vauxhall!
Saturday clubbing at duckie in Vauxhall!
Monday moving to VAUXHALL!!

Master Kaprow (1927-2006)

Master's Rules: A Master should have MASTERS

Western art has two avant-garde histories: one of artlike art and the other of lifelike art. They've been lumped together as parts of a succession of movements fervently committed to innovation, but they represent fundamentally contrasting philosophies of reality... artlike art holds that art is separate from life and everything else, whereas lifelike art holds that art is connected to life and everything else. In other words, there is art at service of art and art at the service of life. The maker of artlike art tends to be a specialist; the maker of lifelike art, a generalist.

Allan Kaprow

Olympic Games

Life and Art

Even though it might seem like an nice ideal, it's not a pretty picture to see someone create without interruptions. Because you have to deny other humans around you. I like the idea of letting the interruptions in through the door because it allows the world to be present in your process. It allows other human beings to be present. Allowing our work to be interrupted by a child, to answer a question, to heed an inner voice, will direct our paths to the solution we are working for. They are life and death choices. Paying heed to interruptions begins to set us on track of those creators who integrate their art into their daily life. There is no separation. Interruptions are essential. They remind us that there is more to life than our art.

Goat Island

Tate Modern: the masters' favorite museum

Tate Modern
This turbine hall, these galleries of light
Are freighted with a purpose and a power.
This bridge is like a contract, and this tower
Evidence of a legacy, a right.
Massive with possibility they stand
Open to such surprise as may exist
Deep in the pulse, the chambers of the heart;
Exacting fresh precision from the hand,
Risk in the brush, resilience in the wrist,
New thoughts to paint, new passions to impart.

James Fenton

Lovely day

And after three days the master feels in heaven.
After three days the sun finally appears.

Master's Readings: Tzara's recipe for Dadaist poem

Take one newspaper. Take one pair of scissors. Choose from that newspaper an article of the length desired for the poem you intend to write. Cut out the article. Next cut out with care each of the words forming that article. Next put them in a bag. Mix gently. Take out one by one each excision in the order they fall from the bag. Copy carefully. The poem will resemble you. Voilá, there you are, an infinitely original poet of seductive sensibility


Tristan Tzara

Bye

Master's Rules: A Master must leave his house with a few possessions

Lovely

Master's Rules: To become a master one must be ready to live without sunlight