close
Support A*Desk

A*DESK has been offering since 2002 contents about criticism and contemporary art. A*DESK has become consolidated thanks to all those who have believed in the project, all those who have followed us, debating, participating and collaborating. Many people have collaborated with A*DESK, and continue to do so. Their efforts, knowledge and belief in the project are what make it grow internationally. At A*DESK we have also generated work for over one hundred professionals in culture, from small collaborations with reviews and classes, to more prolonged and intense collaborations.

At A*DESK we believe in the need for free and universal access to culture and knowledge. We want to carry on being independent, remaining open to more ideas and opinions. If you believe in A*DESK, we need your backing to be able to continue. You can now participate in the project by supporting it. You can choose how much you want to contribute to the project.

You can decide how much you want to bring to the project.

Mira este artículo hasta acabarlo

Magazine

11 May 2014

Mira este artículo hasta acabarlo

Es una de las piezas célebres del Ester Ferrer y el Grupo Zaj: “siéntese en esta silla y permanezca sentado hasta que la muerte les separe”. Una pieza que es una performanec en potencia, un obejeto performático o una performance que se tiene que activar. Y que sobre todo muestra la conexión (hasta que la muerte les separe) entre el grupo Zaj y Fluxus. En concreto una conexión con las piezas con órdenes de Yoko Ono que también funcionan como instrucciones, performances a activar.

Esta semana Susana G. Romanos escribía sobre Yoko Ono y la exposición que le dedica el museo Guggenheim de Bilbao. La exposición que hace un repaso a sus performances y piezas cásicas de los setenta. Toda aquella producción que hace que para muchos Yoko Ono no sea la viuda de John Lennon, sino que Jonh Lennon fuese el marido de Yoko Ono.

Pero Yoko Ono no ha estado ni mucho menos parada (o manteniendo un silencioso duelo). Ni mucho menos. Nunca ha parado de hacer cosas: música, arte, performance, escritura… De lo más reciente, un disco del que os dejamos con el vídeo de la canción “Bad Dancer”. Tras verlo, tal vez convendría repensar toda la producción de la artista en clave irónica, porque aquí hay sentido del humor a paladas: bad dance; bad painting; bad music…

A*DESK is a critical platform focused on publishing, training, experimentation, communication and dissemination in relation to contemporary culture and art, which is defined by transversality. The starting point is contemporary art, because that is where we come from and this awareness allows us to go much further, to incorporate other disciplines and forms of thought in order debate issues that are relevant and urgent for understanding our present.

+ See all publications of this author

Media Partners:

close
close
"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world" (John Le Carré)