this weekend has been interesting. last post i didn't mention at all one of the coolest parts of my friday... it was free day at the MoMA, and i had been looking forward all week to seeing the current exhibit. it's called 'the artist is present' and it is a retrospective of the work of marina abramovic, a serbian performance artist.
woman is wild ooooooh! it was partly video from her previous performances... some memorable ones: her laying on a cross of ice naked until she couldn't stop shivering and then kneeling and flogging herself repeatedly with a whip. her grubbing an entire onion, including the peel, for twenty minutes. her brushing her hair really really hard.
and the other part was made up of various artists reenacting some of her performances. most of these artists were nude. so of course that was interesting. my favorite part was walking between two rooms of the exhibit through a narrow passageway flanked by naked people facing each other. so in order to pass through you have to brush against these people, and you get to choose who you give the ass and who gets to look into your face.
i loved that! the people i walked between were two women, one super tall and one my size... i faced the short one so as not to be eye-level with the tall one's boobies.
a lot of it made me uncomfortable, which i think was the point. the nudity did not bother me, but the self-flagellation and the various torturous things she did to herself really made me uneasy. seems like she's got a lot of pain. when i was watching her eat that onion, i really felt like i was going to gag. AND THAT'S ART!
so besides that i found one of my favorite nina albums on vinyl, and got my mom a mother's day present (an ali farka toure cd). i found two cool parks: prospect park (big) and the waterfront park in williamsburg (small).
i applied for one internship and signed up for new york cares, a volunteer hub that offers the chance to walk dogs at a brooklyn shelter, do yoga with middle schoolers with autism, paint murals at public schools, and read bedtime stories to kids in 'transition homes'.. orphanages, essentially. i am stoked, because all of these things sound really cool and fulfilling in different ways.
i am loving brooklyn more and more.
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