Video: Actress Tilda Swinton sleeps in a glass box at the Museum of Modern Art in New York
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Scottish actress Tilda Swinton literally sleeps in a glass box in front of hundreds of staring tourists at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA). Thus, she takes part in the touching performance "Probably" ("The Maybe").
The thin, pale androgynous woman not only decided to sleep after a grueling work on the set - she "sleeps for the sake of art." Back in 1995, when journalists called the actress Matilda and only remembered about her that she "played somewhere with Derek Jarman," Tilda Swinton, together with British artist Cornelia Parker, invented and staged this unusual performance.
In 2013, when Swinton had already won an Oscar, the first day of "Probably" was shown on March 23rd. The date of the next performance is not known to anyone, according to the idea of the authors, Tilda will appear in MoMA on completely random days, and even museum workers will be aware of this only on the day of the performance itself. The location of the "glazed bed" is also kept secret. It is only known that she can be anywhere on the territory of the museum. Thus, the audience will accidentally "stumble" on the sleeping Tilda, rejoicing in their luck.
According to the idea of the artist Tilda Swinton should sleep in a glass box for eight hours a day. "A living actor, glass, steel, mattress, pillow, linen, water and glasses" - it is written on the plate near the "installation" with Tilda. A museum spokesman claims that "the concept of the performance was not known to either the museum staff or the stunned public."
Actress Tilda Swinton, known for such films "Orlando", "We need to talk about Kevin", "The Chronicles of Narnia", giving an interview about her performance, admitted: "I want to die in this way when I am completely old."
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