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Live Performances
The Slaughterhouse, Royal William Yard
Plymouth, free entry

Friday 22 January 5 – 9pm
Saturday 23 January 5 – 9pm
Sunday 24 January 2– 6pm

Plymouth Arts Centre presents The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow, a curatorial collaboration with the Marina Abramović Institute for Preservation of Performance Art. The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow will stage, document and discuss groundbreaking international performance art in order to examine and sustain the future of the medium. The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow takes place over three days at Royal William Yard with performances by six renowned artists and artist-collectives.

This is the first curatorial project of the Marina Abramović Institute. Marina Abramović has pioneered performance art for over four decades on an international scale. Her major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, opens in March 2010.

The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow is a translation of the title of a conceptual piece of writing by Georg Jappe published by KunstForum International in 1978 on the contemporary state of art practice in relation to global political agendas.

A publication by Prestel accompanies the project. Marina Abramović + the Future of Performance Art, is edited by Paula Orrell, Curator at Plymouth Arts Centre.

Press enquiries: contact Hannah Prothero, Marketing & Communications Manager, Plymouth Arts Centre, phone: 01752 276990, email: hannah@plymouthartscentre.org

Image above: Philip Harris, The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow, 2009

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