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TALLER CLEANING THE HOUSE – 2004<\/strong><\/h2>\nFrom the 12th to the 19th of June, the NMAC Foundation acted as a base for the performances undertaken by 33 young international artists who formed part of the organisation: IPG (Independent Performance Group), founded by the artist Marina Abramovic at the beginning of 2004.
\nAll the performances took place on Saturday the 19th of June in the forest which plays host to the NMAC Foundation’s sculpture trail.\u00a0 Prior to this, from the 12th to the 17th, Marina Abramovic\u2019 ran a workshop with the 33 artists entitled “Cleaning the House”.\u00a0 For 5 days, they submitted themselves to a purification process through fasting, sexual abstinence, silence and the practice of physical and psychic exercises.
\nThe majority of the artists involved in the workshop with Marina Abramovic\u00b4 have already worked with her on various occasions presenting performances at different international events such as the last Venice Biennial (2003) or at the \u201cMuseo de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo\u201d in Santiago de Compostela (CGAC) in 2002.
\nOn conclusion of the workshop the artists prepared a programme of performances which took place in the forest surrounding the NMAC Foundation on the 18th of June. This project was subsidised by the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets under the Ministry for Culture and thanks to the collaboration of the contemporary art centre PS1\/MOMA in New York, where the artists travelled a few days after the performances.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/div><\/div><\/div>Nezaket Ekici: Isn\u2019t life beautiful?<\/b><\/div>\n<\/div>\nRoxy Paine\u2019s metal tree does not possess nor sustain life, as constructed from industrial material. \u00a0In an ironic reaction, the artist covers the tree with real, natural, pink roses.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":167,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-temporary-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2301\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundacionnmac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAll the performances took place on Saturday the 19th of June in the forest which plays host to the NMAC Foundation’s sculpture trail.\u00a0 Prior to this, from the 12th to the 17th, Marina Abramovic\u2019 ran a workshop with the 33 artists entitled “Cleaning the House”.\u00a0 For 5 days, they submitted themselves to a purification process through fasting, sexual abstinence, silence and the practice of physical and psychic exercises.
\nThe majority of the artists involved in the workshop with Marina Abramovic\u00b4 have already worked with her on various occasions presenting performances at different international events such as the last Venice Biennial (2003) or at the \u201cMuseo de Arte Contempor\u00e1neo\u201d in Santiago de Compostela (CGAC) in 2002.
\nOn conclusion of the workshop the artists prepared a programme of performances which took place in the forest surrounding the NMAC Foundation on the 18th of June. This project was subsidised by the General Directorate of Fine Arts and Cultural Assets under the Ministry for Culture and thanks to the collaboration of the contemporary art centre PS1\/MOMA in New York, where the artists travelled a few days after the performances.<\/p>\n<\/div>