How does Marilyn Arsem use durational performance to show how the body goes through time? Marilyn Arsem is an American contemporary artist who has been creating live art since 1975. “Her work bridges the boundaries between performance in everyday life (or cultural performance) and performance art.” (Anderson and Arsem, 1995). Arsem’s work ranges from installation and interaction art to site-specific work. The majority of her most recent work has been site-specific, focusing on the site’s history or politics, and interacting with the locations landscape and nature. Something that Arsem focuses greatly on within her work is time and duration. "
Arsem has dedicated her career to exploring the unique characteristics of performance art and the challenges associated with experiencing and documenting time-based, ephemeral work.”
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, u
.d). Her performances happen over time; hours, days, weeks, months. She aims to take her viewers into the …show more content…
These 100 performances were a series of examinations into the nature of time; she performed for six hours each day. Each day consisted of movement created around a single task that marks the passage of time. For example, walking in circular paths for ten miles’, counting continually from one to 5,800 and watching a sphere of ice melt. For an audience member observing, each performance would’ve felt different in length and quality due to the actions being performed. Some of the actions were personal and individual to Arsem, and others were more systematic and scientific. Practical as well as static movement was used, and she often interacted with her audience throughout the performance; their assistance was often asked for and conversations were made regularly between performer and observer. “For 100 Ways to Consider Time, Arsem invites viewers to contribute reflections on how they experience the passage of time in their own lives via letter, e-mail, Twitter and Instagram” (Museum of Fine Arts Boston,
Arsem has dedicated her career to exploring the unique characteristics of performance art and the challenges associated with experiencing and documenting time-based, ephemeral work.”
(Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, u
.d). Her performances happen over time; hours, days, weeks, months. She aims to take her viewers into the …show more content…
These 100 performances were a series of examinations into the nature of time; she performed for six hours each day. Each day consisted of movement created around a single task that marks the passage of time. For example, walking in circular paths for ten miles’, counting continually from one to 5,800 and watching a sphere of ice melt. For an audience member observing, each performance would’ve felt different in length and quality due to the actions being performed. Some of the actions were personal and individual to Arsem, and others were more systematic and scientific. Practical as well as static movement was used, and she often interacted with her audience throughout the performance; their assistance was often asked for and conversations were made regularly between performer and observer. “For 100 Ways to Consider Time, Arsem invites viewers to contribute reflections on how they experience the passage of time in their own lives via letter, e-mail, Twitter and Instagram” (Museum of Fine Arts Boston,