[VIDEO] Performance Artist Searches for an Actual Needle in an Actual Haystack
Posted: November 15, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Abuse, ARTnews, Columbia University, Jay-Z, Marina Abramović, Mattress, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, Performance art, Sexual assault 1 CommentSam Frizell reports: In a very literal interpretation of the idiom “finding a needle in a haystack,” performance artist Sven Sacselber tries to do exact that. For about two days in a gallery in Paris, he is attempting to find an actual needle in an actual mound of hay.
Performance art often straddles a fine line between brilliance and inanity. Marina Abramović adventurous “Rhythm” series and Joseph Beuys shamanic “I Like America and America Likes Me” are widely agreed to have achieved the former category.
Will Sacselber’s piece do the same? Who knows. But we can hope that….(read more)
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