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.