Ulay Interview: Advice to the Young
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- “If you want and need inspiration - go behind the central station.” The iconic performance artist - and self-proclaimed anarchist - Ulay (b.1943 - d.2020) here advises young artists to avoid art institutions and to make works that meet their own needs rather than that of the audience.
The German artist, who has created works for almost half a century, has a very simple recipe for performance art: you need a location, a date, a time - and an audience: “You are terribly prepared and then you enter your own mental physical space, and you do what you have to do.” Collaborating with Marina Abramović (from 1976 to 1988), the two even promised each other that they would perform even if there were no audience, and Ulay goes on to comment that “if you have the pretension and the ambition to do something for an audience, then don’t kiss their asses.” When you perform, you must hold back at least 30 per cent in order to make the audience long for more.
“You cannot separate my life from art.” Ulay is furthermore grateful that he is able to communicate and pass on the common thread of his nearly 50 years of life and art experience to his audience, which consists mostly of young people.
Ulay (Frank Uwe Laysiepen, b. 1943 - d. 2020) is a German artist, who was based in Amsterdam, Holland, and Ljubljana, Slovenia. Ulay received international recognition for his work as a photographer, mainly in Polaroid, from the late 1960s, and later as a performance artist, including his collaborative performances with Marina Abramović from 1976 to 1988. His work has continuously dealt with politics, identity and gender. In 2016 Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt, Germany, held the first major retrospective show of his work ‘Ulay Life-Sized’. In recent years Ulay’s work has also been on show at the Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam and GNYP Gallery in Berlin. Ulay’s work, as well as his collaborative work with Marina Abramović, is featured in many collections of major art institutions around the world such as Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Tate Modern in London and Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Ulay was interviewed by Christian Lund in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in July 2017.
Cameras: Primoz Korosec
Edited by: Roxanne Bageshirin Lærkesen
Produced by: Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017
Supported by Nordea-fonden
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He was an exceptional artist and human being, I will miss him deeply
Alex,
I concur with your sentiment 100%♡.
Australia
he actually made a rhyme :)
Verbs describe us he is a poet, he just didn’t know it 😉
Ulay you were a Delightful Human Being. ❤
Farewell, Ulay. Rest in peace.
Lymphatic Cancer. Ulay, you were intense man. Your presence can't just be put to rest.
Rest in peace
Ulay, Ulay ohh!
eternally hers now, Ulay
It was an honor to know his art while he was here.
Why am I so sad.. RIP Ulay
thank you for the arts!
I love you Ulah, could you please love me?
Farewell.
R.I.P.....Ulay...
R.I.P. ULAY 😪😪😪😪😪🙏
Awesome
Ulay oh, Ulay oh..
Me conmueve tu historia Ulay. Descansa en paz.
Nice.
Thank you for this!
Yes!
What is meant by 'go behind central station?'
Charles Beau de l'Air he means look at the work in progress. Not the finished. Go to your artist's friends studio, not their gallery.
I think he just means to find the void. You know, go to a place where there is nothing to find what can be created. At least this is what it is like behind union station.
Go see life that's not polished, that's not set up, just raw reality.
The Streets
Go behind the Central Station.
Take 30% back...
He deserves a lot more than what he got!!
Yes, to 'tease' the audience. #fckngood
Otide da gledam kija I luna svadja