MARINA ABRAMOVIC INSTITUTE : L’EXPOSITION AS ONE

In view of Marina Abramovic Institute’s forthcoming exhibition, As One, – presented in Greece and being part of the Institute’s broader vision to introduce performance art to audiences all around the world- Interweave accepted the challenge ingeniously set by the Institute: communicating globally the As One exhibition, by showcasing at the same time both its local and universal character

Held at the Benaki Museum from March 10th to April 24th, 2016, with the valuable cooperation of NEON, the exhibition aspired to pique the global interest not just in physical but also in digital world, while aiming at helping foster a new generation of Greek performance artists.

The main objective was to create and implement a real time digital communications plan, that would include full coverage of the exhibition in all MAI’s digital assets; or, in other words, find the most beautiful, compelling way to translate real life energy into a memorable digital story – the As One story.

Also framed and supported by the Abramovic Method and an extensive public program of lectures, workshops, discussions and other public participatory events, six Greek long-durational performance artists and twenty three Greeks and international ones focusing on intervention performances, constituted the core experience offered in the exhibition; an exhibition owing its singularity to the unique way its three key-components (the artists, the visitors and the place hosting it) were interacting during all these seven weeks.

Hour by hour, day by day, week by week, the pieces – the artists, the visitors themselves kept evolving through this interaction, generating an exceptional kind of energy that transformed the exhibition into an exceptional soul cleansing experience. And that was exactly the bet we had to win: communicate this constant evolvement to MAI’s digital community, all over the world, without losing the minimum of its emotional intensity.