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Hudson will be "unique in the world"
Mar 24, 2013 12:02 am
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Marina Abramović at her Columbia County home in 2012. WGXC file photo.[/caption]Performance artist Marina Abramović says, of Hudson, “This place will be unique in the world, there will be nothing else like it,” at a New York City press conference this week, about her planned project in the Columbia County town. “Optimistic point of view is we raise the money next year, open at the end of 2014, that is Plan A,” Abramović said at the press conference, according to Gallerist. “Plan B is whenever we find the money, we will open.” She also said Hudson was her second choice to base the proposed Marina Abramović's Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art. “What’s very special about Brooklyn, for me, I was very interested in Bushwick,” she is quoted in Gallerist. “But when we came to Hudson, we liked what we found. A practical reason that we didn’t, though, is if you wanted to do something, you had to clean it up, everything was so contaminated, it would have cost as much to clean up the building as to buy it. In the end, it was not worth it. We like Hudson.” Read the full story in Gallerist.
Marina Abramović at her Columbia County home in 2012. WGXC file photo.[/caption]Performance artist Marina Abramović says, of Hudson, “This place will be unique in the world, there will be nothing else like it,” at a New York City press conference this week, about her planned project in the Columbia County town. “Optimistic point of view is we raise the money next year, open at the end of 2014, that is Plan A,” Abramović said at the press conference, according to Gallerist. “Plan B is whenever we find the money, we will open.” She also said Hudson was her second choice to base the proposed Marina Abramović's Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art. “What’s very special about Brooklyn, for me, I was very interested in Bushwick,” she is quoted in Gallerist. “But when we came to Hudson, we liked what we found. A practical reason that we didn’t, though, is if you wanted to do something, you had to clean it up, everything was so contaminated, it would have cost as much to clean up the building as to buy it. In the end, it was not worth it. We like Hudson.” Read the full story in Gallerist.