5 reasons to see 15 Rooms right now- 大数跨境

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2015-10-28

导读：The Long Museum's latest show proves performance art rocks

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15 Rooms at the Long Museum is a tour de force of performance art. Co-curated by Klaus Biesenbach (director of MoMA PS1) and Hans Ulrich Obrist (co-director of the Serpentine Gallery), it's a high-profile exhibition that gives you the chance to come face-to-face with pioneering performance artworks, inside the 15 rooms that have been specially installed in the museum. Here's why you should visit.

1. You can do it lying down

Laura Lima's work 'Man=Flesh/Woman=Flesh', features a person lying down on a carpet in a room that prevents them from standing or sitting. As you crouch down to see what's going on, they might engage you in conversation, making you a part of the piece too. It's not often that an artwork talks back at you.

2. You're a part of the art

One of the wonderful things about performance art, is that it blurs the line between the artist, artwork and the observer. With many of the pieces of art at 15 Rooms, you are an integral part of the experience. You will be unexpectedly engaged in conversation by performers which creates a unique, and perhaps uncomfortable, experience. Just, please, don't get caught out like this guy did.

3. You can see shuaige bathing in milk

Yep, that's right: bathing in milk. And not just any milk either. No, Double Fly Art Centre have elected to bathe in the 'Milk of Pure Love'. It's a typically irreverent piece from the brilliant Shuangfei guys, who earlier in the year, told us they just want you to think they're 'stupid c*nts'. Job done, boys.

4. The laws of physics rupture before your eyes

Xu Zhen really pulled it out of the bag this time. China's master of pop and irreverent art first created his piece 'In Just a Blink of an Eye' in 2005. Featuring a person locked in what looks like a backwards fall, it's equal parts Matrix bullet scene and Covent Garden street performance (VPN).

5. You come face-to-face with pioneering work

Marina Abramovic was one of the first artists to bring the observer into the art process. Her early piece, 'Art Must be Beautiful, Artist Must be Beautiful' 1975, delivers a strong message about our approaches to art, aesthetics and gender. Stepping into the room at the Long Museum, you are faced with a woman sitting on a chair combing her hair forcefully, repeating the mantra 'Art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful' over and over.

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