Even if you haven’t wandered up to 5th Avenue at 89th Street recently, chances are you’ve heard whispers of something unusual afoot. That something is courtesy of performance artist Tino Sehgal, whose ephemeral pieces rely on empty space and spectator involvement. One such piece in his current solo show at the Guggenheim, titled “The Kiss,” involves a couple embracing on the floor of the rotunda in a “changing, slow-motion, amorous” entanglement. We at Flavorpill love staging elaborate photo shoots in museums and decided to reinterpret Sehgal’s performance piece in five New York City art institutions: The Metropolitan Museum, New Museum, Rubin Museum, P.S.1, and the Brooklyn Museum. Could we choreograph the same magic?
Play voyeur and peep our exclusive slideshow after the jump.
CLICK THROUGH for our exclusive photo set featuring real-life couples in five New York museums »
Lacking a makeout partner of your own? Fear not; the museum experience can be just as intimate. Another major performace artist, Marina Abramović, has a career retrospective opening at MoMA on March 14 and a DIY inner peace talisman called the Energy Blanket to accompany it. The huggable art (retailing for $460 at the MoMA store) contains “fourteen magnets and a drawing of Abramovic’s body indicating where they ought to go before climbing under it.”
All photos courtesy of Megan Feldman. A special thanks to our friends at The Met, Brooklyn Museum, Rubin Museum of Art, New Museum, and P.S.1 for letting us shoot on premises.
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18 Responses
three cheers for PDA.
Love it.
one liner
awesome.
It would have been nice if it hadn’t been staged. Interesting photos from a ready-set-kiss stand-point.
I was confronted by a security employee at our local free library for tucking away in a corner and PDA’ing. It seemed very odd. Wouldn’t it be nice if we saw more affection toward one another? It might even change the vibe of the world for the better. Peace, y’all.
scandalous and awesome.
Caught this couple: http://twitpic.com/1268ey kissing near THE “American Gothic” in Chicago by sheer accident. It was so brief, I didn’t even realized they smooched until later, after reviewing my snapshots.
Gorgeous.
Very nice guys. I just have one suggestion: you have a whole page to showcase each photo- why not make them larger? It’s a waste of space AND waste of photographs.
this is awesome!
On the other hand, if visitors to 86th Street didn’t noticed anything afoot on 86th Street, it might have been b/c the Guggenheim’s not located on 86th Street.
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who really cares? are we that tired of art that we need a someone to assist us in acting out who we are? how dumb are we? are we looking at a holiday for artistic direction? this is inane.
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Very Nice Indeed!!
Loved your blog.. Kissing is good for health in museum! :D
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