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Marni Halasa the British lawyer, journalist, and performance artist for Occupy Wall Street in New York City and member of Occupy's Alternative Banking Group, a direct action and seminar group that distributes information to the public, has published an article on Huffington Post titled ‘Show Time! Tripping the Light Fantastic as a Performance Artist for Occupy Wall Street’. Halasa states “My conservative Arab father always told me I had no shame. Little did he know that my insatiable desire to exhibit and entertain as a performance artist would come in handy for Occupy Wall Street. I help the movement spread its message of the 99 percent in a somewhat unique and flamboyant way. Whether I am dressed as Marie-Antoinette, protesting against workers' low wages in front of a Walmart in New Jersey; a police officer during an anti-police brutality march in Union Square; or a dominatrix covered in fake money in front of the Federal Reserve, I am compelled to be a living breathing costumed illustration of my own political beliefs. And mind you -- all of this is done on skates. So why do I risk arrest, brave the sometimes hostile elements and lose sleep over hours of preparation? An obsessive desire for creative self-expression is the obvious reason. The other is that it is my chance to belong to an amazingly purposeful politicized community. When Occupy began, I connected with a group of people who could discuss the complexities and dynamics of wealth, power and social mobility in our society. From them I learned how bankers from HSBC laundered money for the drug cartels and avoided criminal prosecution, why the Dodd-Frank reforms do not go far enough to insure our country's financial stability, and the reasons behind the lack of mobility for the low income. Although these people were for the most part strangers, they charmed me with their warmth, intellect, and uncanny ability to make complex information understandable. They were also keen to make a positive impact. I quickly decided I had to join the Occupy movement...”  Inspired by Marni Halasa, Huffington Post ow.ly/kuGR4 Image source Twitter ow.ly/kuGMQ I help the movement spread its message (May 23 2013)

 

Marni Halasa the British lawyer, journalist, and performance artist for Occupy Wall Street in New York City and member of Occupy’s Alternative Banking Group, a direct action and seminar group that distributes information to the public, has published an article on Huffington Post titled ‘Show Time! Tripping the Light Fantastic as a Performance Artist for Occupy Wall Street’. Halasa states “My conservative Arab father always told me I had no shame. Little did he know that my insatiable desire to exhibit and entertain as a performance artist would come in handy for Occupy Wall Street. I help the movement spread its message of the 99 percent in a somewhat unique and flamboyant way. Whether I am dressed as Marie-Antoinette, protesting against workers’ low wages in front of a Walmart in New Jersey; a police officer during an anti-police brutality march in Union Square; or a dominatrix covered in fake money in front of the Federal Reserve, I am compelled to be a living breathing costumed illustration of my own political beliefs. And mind you — all of this is done on skates. So why do I risk arrest, brave the sometimes hostile elements and lose sleep over hours of preparation? An obsessive desire for creative self-expression is the obvious reason. The other is that it is my chance to belong to an amazingly purposeful politicized community. When Occupy began, I connected with a group of people who could discuss the complexities and dynamics of wealth, power and social mobility in our society. From them I learned how bankers from HSBC laundered money for the drug cartels and avoided criminal prosecution, why the Dodd-Frank reforms do not go far enough to insure our country’s financial stability, and the reasons behind the lack of mobility for the low income. Although these people were for the most part strangers, they charmed me with their warmth, intellect, and uncanny ability to make complex information understandable. They were also keen to make a positive impact. I quickly decided I had to join the Occupy movement…”

 

Inspired by Marni Halasa, Huffington Post ow.ly/kuGR4 Image source Twitter ow.ly/kuGMQ

Marina Abramović the 64 year old New York-based Serbian performance artist renowned for her major retrospective 2010 performance at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) titled ‘The Artist is Present’, has had her work recreated into a browser based video game of the same title. The performance was the largest performance art exhibition ever held at MoMA, sitting for 736 hours with spectators queuing to sit opposite as Abramović sat static, immobile and silent in the museum’s atrium. The game developer Pippin Barr created the game to reconstruct the experience, including minor details such as ticketing, queuing and the environmental visuals of the museum space. Abramović has been an active performance artist for the past three decades, describing herself as the ‘grandmother of performance art’, exploring performer-audience relationships, and the artists physical limitations.

 

 

Inspired by Phaidon http://ow.ly/6DEGE image source Shelby Lessig http://ow.ly/6DENA

Ellen F. Steinberg known as Annie M. Sprinkle the 57 year old US performance artist and former prostitute actress renowned as the “prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist” has embarked on a new work with her partner Elizabeth Stephens, launching an art movement manifesto titled ‘Exosex’. The work fuses Steinberg’s fetishistic interests of taboo human sexuality with environmental themes, creating ‘Sexecology’ as a new discipline with Ecosexual themes since her marriage to the Earth and taking it as her lover to explore places where sexology and ecology intersect. Themes include ‘The Ecstasy of Gardening’, ‘Anal Ecology’ and ‘Greening the sex industry’. Steinberg’s work since the age of 17 has been about sexuality with an unusual political and spiritual bent, taking on the name ‘Annie’ when first starting in pornography. Inspired by Ben Davis ow.ly/65g5e image source Wikipedia ow.ly/65gq9 Caress rocks and pleasured by waterfalls (August 24 2011)

Ellen F. Steinberg known as Annie M. Sprinkle the 57 year old US performance artist and former prostitute actress renowned as the “prostitute and porn star turned sex educator and artist” has embarked on a new work with her partner Elizabeth Stephens, launching an art movement manifesto titled ‘Exosex’. The work fuses Steinberg’s fetishistic interests of taboo human sexuality with environmental themes, creating ‘Sexecology’ as a new discipline with Ecosexual themes since her marriage to the Earth and taking it as her lover to explore places where sexology and ecology intersect. Themes include ‘The Ecstasy of Gardening’, ‘Anal Ecology’ and ‘Greening the sex industry’. Steinberg’s work since the age of 17 has been about sexuality with an unusual political and spiritual bent, taking on the name ‘Annie’ when first starting in pornography.

 

Inspired by Ben Davis http://ow.ly/65g5e image source Wikipedia http://ow.ly/65gq9

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