Beastie by Lone Twin

4.2 Ghost dance: time and duration in the work of Lone Twin

Gregg Wheelan in conversation with Tony Gardner (pp. 97-102)

  • The use of video and other digital technologies to manipulate the passage of time in contemporary media performance can create a sense of the extemporal,
    or “time out of time”.
  • Durational works can mark out and frame a special time in the ongoing flow of the everyday as a privileged space of performance.
  • Marina Abramovic has spoken about creating a special kind of time through her durational pieces, arguing that
    artist and spectator must “meet in a completely new territory, and build from that timeless time spent together”.
  • It is dramatic to end something that has been going on for what is largely considered a long time.
    But the idea of an ending does create something of heightened sense of being together.
  • Giving something a lot of time allows for all sorts of things to happen – it creates an opening, a field of possibilities.

 

Pitches, J., and Popat, S. (ed.) (2011) Performance Perspectives: A Critical Introduction. New York: Palgrave Macmillan

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