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

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."

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