Congressman Johnson is concerned Guam will capsize with all the military personal and equipment the United States is stationing there. Here he’s quizzing a general about his concerns.
Congressman Johnson … Everybody who lives on an island knows that when an island begins to capsize, everyone is suppose to run to the other side.
From www.popmatters.com
By Aaron Sagers
As I encountered the two nude women in the doorway, I hesitated. The other people in the room watched, expecting me to do something and I felt the pressure. The women faced one another silently, and though I didn’t speak, I had to interact awkwardly and slip between them; contact between bodies impossible to avoid. It was the most aware I’d ever been of myself while crossing a threshold, despite it being the women who weren’t clothed, I was the one who felt naked that day at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The nude women in the narrow doorway are living pieces of art in “Imponderabilia”, a performance art exhibit at MoMA that opened last Sunday and continues through May as part of “The Artist is Present” career retrospective of Yugoslavian creator Marina Abramovi?. Other performance pieces of the collection include a nude woman reclining with a fake skeleton on top of her, as well as two clothed people sitting across from each other touching fingertips, or sitting back-to-back with hair wrapped together. The artist herself will also be taking part in the exhibit, by literally being present during open hours of the museum, sitting at a table silently, across from members of the public who are free to take a seat.
Along with Abramovi?’s own appearance, the longest solo performance of her career, her sound pieces, photographs and video of work that couldn’t be recreated at MoMA – such as when she and her former collaborator began at opposite ends of the Great Wall of China and walked until they met one another, three months later – make the collection nothing short of remarkable.
But it’s the butts that get all the buzz.
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