ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ – ΑΘΗΝΑ

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Jan Fabre

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    The Rea(dy)-make of the Money Performance, 1980
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , 00:50:00

    11.1.1980
    ​Antwerp, Ankerrui Theatre

    After the infamous Money Performance the audience returns. This time the artist creates an exhibition with the collected fees, walks around in a suit made of money and pockets the surplus. The audience does not tolerate this.

     

    'It's night.It feels good.

    Last night I did The Rea(dy)-make of the
    Money Performance.
    I had my nerves under control
    and my energy was focused.
    The concept was just right.
    The public didn't get what it came
    for and what it had read in the papers:
    scandal and success.
    I gave them confusion and a new performance.'

    (Jan Fabre, Antwerp, 11 January 1980)

    'The press, what an unworldly medium.
    How odd!
    Two newspapers wrote exactly the same
    about my performance:
    'The originality of the ideas remains,
    so we can expect a third Money Performance
    from Jan Fabre.'
    The answer to that is simple: FORGET IT!
    What do they think, those journalists,
    that an artist is a DJ (we request, you spin).'

    (Jan Fabre, Antwerp, 16 January 1980)

     

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