HowardWho's in and Who's Out in Art
March 16th 2010 02:17
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
Marina Abramovic and Amir Baradaran, Side to Side
Who's in and who is out in art is an interesting question, especially with some of the exhibits at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in NYC. Amir Baradaran has been engaged in some heavy identity politics at the opening of the Marina Abramovic exhibit at MOMA. With Baradaran there is the who's in, who's out, return of the question. Perhaps we better go back to regular politics. Anyway, this progresses to "I am a nurse from New Zealand; a non-resident alien" and "the passing of the author" The second message, a reference to the persona Abramovic adopts as she travels incognito, appears to momentarily break her concentration. It is then that Baradaran lays the shroud onto the table, removes his wallet and an inkpad from his pocket, and stamps the canvases with his fingerprints. Basked in the overbearing lights, in a sterile performance space surrounded by security guards who seem ready to spring into action each time Baradaran removes his hands from his pockets, the artist effortlessly evokes the traumatic discomfort he feels when stopped at a security checkpoint. He is no longer simply the other artist in the piece but an artist expressing the pain and vulnerability of being an --other--- a person identified as an -- outsider---- by the status quo.
It's underground but it is there. Check it out, along with the "Poetic Quarrel" a famous work by Baradaran.
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