Arsem’s online artist talk, ‘Taking Time in Performance,’ on September 24, 2020 at 5 pm MST, is part of ‘Art, Activism and Global Crisis,’ sponsored by CoLAB, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
In this lecture, Marilyn Arsem will discuss thematic concerns and performance strategies that artists consider when they create durational performances. Using examples of performances by artists such as Gina Pane, Hsieh Tehching, Linda Montano, Ulay and Abramovic, Alastair MacLennan, Joanne Rice, and William Pope.L as well as her own work, she will talk about the ways that extended time impacts performers, their materials, and the viewers of the work, and how the concepts in the work can only be revealed over time.