Metamorfoza

On March 5, 1968 in Toronto, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage played a game of musical chess. Titled “Reunion,” the event drew an audience of hundreds to the Ryerson Theatre, where the two creative giants would activate a unique auditory experience through a specially constructed chess board that triggered different electronic compositions with each individual move.

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Marina Abramović is one of the most famous performance artists in the world. One of the performance that Marina collaborate with her lover is call “The Great Wall Walk” They are both lovers and partners for 13 years, and they have decided to end their relationship though this performance, which they began their walks on 30th of March 1988, from the opposite side of The Great Wall, “known to the Chinese as The Sleeping dragon.” This is completely contrary to their original plan, in 1983: Abramović and Ulay announced their collaboration “The Lovers,” they wanted to be the first people to walk The Great Wall, which they plan to start alone from opposite end, intending to meet in the middle and get married there.

Abramovich and Ulay have walked for 90 days and covered roughly 2000 km each, which had averaged 20km per a day. When they finally met and hugged affectionately, Ulay shared his idea to Abramovich that he wishes to continue walking “forever”. After a press conference in Beijing, they returned to Amsterdam separately and had no spoken or seen each other for 22 years.

The dragon is a symbol for auspiciousness for Chinese people, it represents strength, auspiciousness and the fundamental forces of nature. “Unlike in China, the dragon in western mythology is perceived as a symbol of malevolence, a destructive creature to be hunted down and destroyed.” Therefore, they are more inclined to Western mythology and end their 13-year relationship through this “evil dragon.”

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