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.