TheNightingale wrote:That wasn't the point of the performance, though?
-«Noted and forbidding performance artist Marina Abramovic, equal parts nerves and artistic intensity, led the crowd in seven minutes of respectfully-observed silence (try it; it’s a long time). Instructing us to close our eyes (OK, MOJO peeked),
she unfurled her all-white outfit which, once she extended her arms, Christ-like, became a giant peace sign. Thus, she hoped, our powerful energy would enter the world and mitigate war and violence. Good luck with that.» source:
https://www.mojo4music.com/articles/sto ... ry-review/
- « [...] Il mondo è in un posto davvero difficile, possiamo davvero dare tutti insieme amore incondizionato l’uno all’altro, possiamo cambiare il mondo» translated by me: "[...] the world is very harsh place, we can really, all together, give unconditioned love to eachother,
we can change the world." source:
https://video.corriere.it/cultura/duece ... a51f0e64af
- «The silence is in recognition of what Abramović has previously referred to as a “dark moment in human history”. She told the crowd: “The world is in a really shitty place…
There is war, there is a hunger, there is a protest,
there is a killing, there is a violence.
But what is happening if we look into the big picture? Violence brings more violence. Killing brings more killing. Anger brings more anger. Demonstration brings more demonstration.” She continued: “
Here if we try to do something different, how to be in the present, here and now, and how we can actually all together give unconditional love to each other.”» source:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/glastonb ... ce-3769788
and, by the way, my point was to demonstrate how that performance of hers was clueless and useless nonsense. It's, as i noted before, hippie rubbish, that preaches random "love and peace" gobbledygook and pretends it really matters, in the real, tangible world. It's a rich person doing what most of them do best : f**kall!
...except breaking the testicles of us plebs with idiotic preaching.
oh, one last thing: i don't care at all where PJ stands on this. I look foward to her 'cause she's one of the most ( or, at least, that's what i think) brillant artists of the last 130 years, and she's a lovely lovely woman with a sweet heart and under-control ego, but i don't agree with a good chunk of her (supposed) political opinions and i won't get influenced by them.
to wrap it up, if others found the performance enjoyable and right, good for them; as i said before, to each their own, i've already spent enough time on a topic i really find distasteful, unpleasant.
