[syndicate] Valdimir Bulat: Interview with Ulay, Bucharest 2000

[Claudia Westermann]

>I mention your real name?" And he did that, and my real name is Uwe 
>Laysiepen. Just a week ago two students of mine in Germany searched about 
>a couple of
>hours on the Internet for my real name. And they did not find it, because 
>it is not recorded on the Internet.

;) ... hm,
it would have been just too easy to have a look into the lecture catalogue 
of the university .... well .......


a refugee

said he was searching for reality.

'How many truths do I have to collect?' she asked.


( reduced conversation )

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the performance work of Marina Abramovic and Ulay is pretty well documented 
on the internet.


http://www.aces.utexas.edu/sam/images/dissertation/The%20Lovers%20photos/

UNICUM: So where is the difference between the new art-generation and you?
Abramovic: You remember me walking the chinese wall in 1988 with Ulay...
UNICUM:...your former partner Uwe Laysiepen, with whom you had been working 
for 12 years...
Abramovic:... we had walked, both from the opposite end, for 90 days until 
we met in the middle. Nine years later, I saw a video-installation of a 
beatifull chinese boy walking naked the chinese wall. So I asked the artist 
: "How long have you been walking?" He said: "Well, for three minutes". 
That's the difference.



http://www.werkleitz.de/events/biennale2000/E/katalog/abramovic_ulay.html
"Rest Energy"
NL 1980, Video, 4:12 min, b&w

Standing across from one another in slanted position
Looking each other in the eye.
I hold a bow and Ulay holds the string with the arrow
pointing directly to my heart.
Microphones attached to both hearts recording
the increasing number of heart beats.

(Marina Abramovic)