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Plymouth Arts Centre is very sorry to announce that Marina Abramović has been deemed too unwell to travel to the United Kingdom for The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow symposium event.

Marina sends her sincere apologies and states: “Due to my unforeseen illness, it is with great regret that I am unable to be with you in Plymouth in person this weekend, I will be present however through virtual means and would like to stress how important this event is to the future of my institution and the preservation of Performance Art. This event requires your attendance to influence how we move forward in the preservation of live work”.

Plymouth Arts Centre is working hard to ensue that Marina is very much present at the symposium through Skype and virtual means.

The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow schedule remains as advertised and we are delighted that we can continue to host: Marina Abramović (via Skype), artists from the performances, Ron Athey, Maria Balshaw, Paul Clarke, Helen Cole, Geoff Cox, Adrian Heathfield, Tehching Hsieh, Dominic Johnson, Nick Kaye, Lois Keidan, Alastair MacLennan, Lee Miller, Andrew Mitchelson, Roberta Mock, Hayley Newman, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paula Orrell, Kira O’Reilly, Helen Pritchard, Jovana Stokić, André Stitt and Lois Weaver

And the presentation of work by artists; Davide Balliano, Snezana Golubovic, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Eva and Franco Mattes (a.k.a. www.0100101110101101.org), Performance Re-enactment Society (with Hugo Glendinning), and Francesca Steele.

We look forward to seeing you over the weekend.

Ian Hutchinson

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