Past, present and future are united at Museum Schloss Moyland: the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI) is designing an art program with site-specific, longer-lasting performances based on artistic research in the Beuys archive and the collection of Museum Schloss Moyland.
A group of international artists will realize the actions experimentally and processually in Bedburg-Hau. Guests are involved when references to past art performances are made and new memorable moments are created.
The program is based on re-performances by Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović, which form the starting point for further artistic research in the Joseph Beuys Archive and in the collection of the Museum Schloss Moyland with the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI). In 2005, she presented "7 Easy Pieces" at the Guggenheim Museum in New York - seven seven-hour restagings of performances by various artists. Among them was "Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt" by Joseph Beuys, an action that he conceived in 1965 and performed at the Schmela Gallery in Düsseldorf.
