Hannes Mahlte Mahler "Drawing Centrifuge" Performance
Location One
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The Abramovic Studio at Location one presents Hannes Malte Mahler with the drawing performance: Drawing Centrifuge. The Mahler draws according to your wishes. You can keep the drawing.
Instructions:
a) Write your wish on the drawing paper. Add your name and address.
b) Mahler draws.
c) Receive your drawing and glue it on the wall (Attended by the cheerleaders).
d) The result drawings fill the space.
e) One day later you can collect your drawing.
For the artist, the life drawing idea is around for about 10 years, starting from a part within a broader installation of a studio with him performing in it as an artist. Since then it has undergone several changes and now the centrifuge idea is the one that he is interested in - meaning a more or less simple set-up in which the artist sits and the audience watches: one orders ’something’ and he draws it - meaning people witness the actual process of creation. Source and inspiration is the artist’s personal practice as he usually draws wherever he is and therefore it was a somewhat logical step to draw on demand. As he also creates ‘real’ paintings / drawings / photography, this special set up just plays with the role of the ‘Mahler’ ( ‘painter’ in English) — it does not counteract but reinforce and vitalize this figure.
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Schedule
May 22, 2010 from 16:00 to 20:00