Some Internet Coverage of The Anxiety of Influence

http://notes.caseyagollan.com/

http://nosmarties.com/2010/seein-dis-the-anxiety-of-influence/

http://bombsite.powweb.com/?p=8919

http://gotagirlcrush.tumblr.com/post/482277986/got-a-girl-crush-on-marina-abramovic

http://www.theawl.com/2010/03/marina-abramovics-day-long-doppelganger-at-moma

http://www.sympathyfortheartgallery.com/

http://britticisms.tumblr.com/

http://andreainspired.tumblr.com/

http://www.sexartandpolitics.com/

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/03/meet_the_marina_abramovic_dopp.html

http://newyorkblips.dailyradar.com/story/marina-abramovi-s-day-long-doppelganger-at-moma/

http://www.bretkovacs.com/ogfromct/2010/03/the-anxiety-of-influence.html

http://gothamist.com/2010/03/29/performance_artist_mimics_performan.php

http://www.x-reference.com/2010/03/16/marina-abramovic/

http://topsy.com/trackback?url=http://bombsite.powweb.com/%3Fp=8919

http://minasdeouro.com.br/

feed://badatsports.com/feed/

http://showhype.com/story/marina-abramovi-s-day-long-doppelganger-at-moma/

http://troubledbyinsects.tumblr.com/

http://www.neoows.com/story/10628998

http://iplextra.indiatimes.com/quote/0awDc6fenzdvK?q=Entertainment

http://pierreism.tumblr.com/

http://thetvrealist.com/gossip/Marina-Abramovis-DayLong-Doppelganger-at-MoMA-2039121.html

http://letitbeknown.co.cc/marina-abramovics-day-long-doppelganger-at-moma

http://pop-culture.mattters.com/2010/3/29/fight-night-five-lessons-from-the-new-york-golden-gloves-finals

http://jstheater.blogspot.com/2010/03/1st-day-of-classes-abramovics.html

http://wf360.typepad.com/bev/2010/03/british-airways-and-obama-and-.html

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/artnetnews/craig-robins-sues-david-zwirner-over-marlene-dumas3-23-10.asp

http://jezebel.com/comment/21099999/

http://wildegallerygirl.blogspot.com/2010/03/interview-with-abramovics-doppleganger.html

http://animalnewyork.com/2010/03/marina-abramovic-doppelganger-amuses-artist-annoys-visitors/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+animalnewyork+(ANIMAL)

http://www.cynephile.com/2010/03/imponderabilia-marina-abramovic-at-moma/

http://upcoming.current.com/items/1281185_marina-abramovic-doppelganger-amuses-artist-annoys-visitors.htm

http://outside.in/new-york-ny/tags/Museum%20of%20Modern%20Art

http://raabia.tumblr.com/post/483465865/anya-liftig-hijacking-marina-abramovics-moma

http://createbuilddestroy.com/wordpress/?p=8083

http://htmlgiant.com/random/second-mess-section/

http://nothingisinvisible.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/the-artist-is-present-still-more-on-marina-abramovic/

http://www.ubervu.com/conversations/bombsite.powweb.com/%3Fp%3D8919

http://www.zelvonberg.com/index/marina-abramovic-seated-facing-a-doppleganger

http://swellss.tumblr.com/post/484191506/amyrudnik-raabia-anya-liftig-hijacking

http://thestrycker.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/artist-as-imitator/

http://modernandmaterialthings.tumblr.com/post/485814545/anya-as-marina

http://ritaj.tumblr.com/post/484822636/britticisms-bomb-magazine-recently-posted-an

http://tttotallywired.tumblr.com/post/484527049

http://topics.philly.com/article/0aux5h3eAU5kb?q=Marina+Abramovic

http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2010/03/at_her_moma_sit.shtml

http://kellerabteil.soup.io/post/51072758/Marina-Abramovic-Doppelganger-Amuses-Artist-Annoys-Visitors

http://phreak20.soup.io/post/51050830/Marina-Abramovic-Doppelganger-Amuses-Artist-Annoys-Visitors

http://cvaldaisnotbig.tumblr.com/post/484624784/marina-abramovics-day-long-doppelganger-at-moma

http://flannypack.tumblr.com/

http://www.peterwknox.com/

http://blog.mocahill.com/

http://htmlgiant.com/random/second-mess-section/

http://www.verbeat.org/blogs/narghee-la/

http://teatar.hr/38322/klonirana-u-umjetnosti/

http://www.kunstbeeld.nl/00/kb/nl/469/nieuws/12862/Laatste_nieuws.html

http://www.veza.sigledal.org/novice/diego-de-brea-in-dostojevski

http://cuda.soup.io/since/51134219?mode=own&newer=1

http://mtcs-demo.apperceptive.com/testmt/recent_news/2010/03/performance-artist-mimics-performance-artist-at-moma.php

http://www.mondofineart.com/blog/2010/contemporary-art-news

http://walnutsdontfreeze.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/the-best-performance-art-of-all-time/

 

The Anxiety of Influence

On Saturday, March 24th I dressed as artist Marina Abramovic and sat with her for six and a half hours in the MOMA atrium. 

This guerilla performance was unannounced and was titled, "The Anxiety of Influence."  Here are some of the things that I was thinking about during our session:

I went through so many transformations as I sat there. Initially, I wanted some rise out of her, some acknowledgement of my gesture. Then I wanted to confess, as if I had been a bad child. Then, I felt myself get so angry that I almost started to cry. Why was she so special and why was I so small and weak? The glory of the venue wore off rather quickly. At a certain point, I felt like we were locking horns. She leaned forward and so did I. I started aping her every little movement and I kept hearing myself say, “move over bacon, here comes sausage.” Then I would crack again. She’s so strong. I was intimidated. She is like a mountain. She is my hero. But I knew I could make it through the day. I was hallucinating all over the place. She looked like a baby to me at one point. I thought about how hard it is to let myself be loved, I wondered if she felt that way too. I asked her with my mind. I wondered what I wanted out of her, why approval from anyone was so important. I wondered if I really just wanted all of the people in the atrium to loathe me so I sat there and let them loathe me. I thought about my parents and that one day they will die and I will be devastated. I thought I was hallucinating the whole thing. I thought that performance art is a more wonderful experience than any drug ever. I wanted to pee really badly. I wanted a way in. I wanted my contacts to stop falling out of  my eyes. Every time I thought about leaving the chair, I got pissed at myself. I got pissed at her. I got pissed at the museum. I just got pissed. And damn it felt GOOD. 

 

BURLESQUE BUGS

A dance piece choreographed by Michael Freeman

I will be in this piece at the upcoming Performance MIX Festival with New Dance Alliance

April 16, 8pm

Joyce Soho 

155 Mercer St (btwn Houston and Prince)

www.joyce.com

THE NOTHINGS

new photographs by Anya Liftig

march 4-april 2, 2010

second floor gallery

pittsburg state university, pittsburg, ks

image: Untitled Japan 5, 2008

from the press release:

Anya Liftig, from Westport CT  will exhibit The Nothings in the Second Floor Gallery March 4 – April 2, 2010.  Liftig was awarded 1^st Place in the Pittsburg State University’s National Juried Exhibit The Feast by juror and San Francisco artist Liz Hickok for an image still from one of her performances.  This exhibit of her photography is part of the award. Liftig has a BA from Yale University and an MFA from Georgia State University.  Liftig’s art practice includes performance art, sculpture, installation and photography. She explores the chasm between the two worlds in which she grew up. She writes, “I am a collector. I collect the past and daily stare into the void of all the things that I lost—memories, scraps of paper, old scratched Tupperware. These things have equal weight for me. Growing up in a family spilt between the disparate cultures of my mother’s Appalachian Kentucky and my father’s Jewish New York, I danced in the chasm between their worlds. I learned to transmute. My work, expressed in a variety of mediums, is a reflection of that hybridization and integration.”

 

Her performance art and art practice combines an astute creative perspective with a poignant and intelligent exploration of challenging subjects that are often difficult to understand or talk about.  For her performance “Woven Room” she says, I have always thought that the most powerful visual metaphor for history is a knot--wrought and wrangled around itself. Textiles, like photographs, are composed of tiny little knots that capture the moments of our lives.”

 

Liftig has extensive international experience.  She taught photography in Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, India and Vietnam and created innovative and experiential programs for the “Global Gap” in fourteen countries. Liftig has exhibited in Egypt, The Hague, Nuremberg German and around the US in Chicago, San Francisco and New York to mention but a few places. 

SITE FESTIVAL

I have been delinquent in posting lately:

MARCH 6th, I danced in Michael Freeman's Dance Piece, Burlesque Bugs, at Chez Bushwick as part of the SITE FESTIVAL

We will be doing this piece again at Dixon Place and Joyce SOHO this spring. Will post info soon.