Watch Live on Facebook! Miles Greenberg will be doing his live performance with the Bangkok Art Biennale titled ‘Admiration Is the Furthest Thing From Understanding’ at the Bangkok Art & Culture Centre (BACC) from the 23rd to the 31st of January 2021 between 10:30am to 6:30pm.
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Admiration is the furthest thing from understanding
Eight hours a day for eight days, the performer is to remain immobile, blinded, lying face up atop a structure.
The piece recalls a burial rite. It partly based on an image from Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror (1975) of a sleeping woman levitating above her bed. This image is often portrayed in the horror film genre to represent when a human being is possessed demons or angels.
This channels Afrodiasporic notions of dispossession, the figure alludes to histories of bodily dissociation. This may be seen as a reflection of the ways in which enslaved African people interpreted their own lived precarity that gave way to forms as manifestations of deliverance, and to embodiment as divine architecture.
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Miles Greenberg is a Canadian performance artist and the youngest in the group (of three performance artists selected by Marina Abramović for BAB 2020). He masters power of self-concentration, learning different techniques from various religious ceremonies and rituals. He often presents his body as a sculpture. His hypnotic movements and different body positions are extremely difficult to maintain during long periods of time (8 hours or more). He succeeds to transform time into timelessness. – Marina Abramović
Greenberg was born in Montreal in 1997 and is based now between Paris and New York. Mostly self-taught, from age seventeen onwards Greenberg completed a number of artistic/research residencies in lieu of formal education, including most notably École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Red Gate Gallery Beijing and Long Island’s Watermill Center. During March/April of 2019, he was the inaugural in-house resident of Palais de Tokyo's new performance art residency, La Manutention.
Greenberg has exhibited internationally, most recently: HAEMOTHERAPY (I) (Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, 2020); PNEUMOTHERAPY (II) (Galerie Perrotin, New York, 2020) and ALPHAVILLE NOIR (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2019)
