"Performance as embodied thinking": Interviewing Marilyn Arsem

Abstract

Marilyn Arsem, performance artist and former professor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), talks about her experiences and learnings in more than forty years of practicing and teaching performance, both institutionally and in workshops throughout the world. By following her thoughts, it is possible to understand a little more about Arsem’s creational and creative processes which, in our understanding, depart more from a genuine impetus of investigating and experimenting with reality and in the present moment’s tessitura than from creating performances whose developments and objectives are somehow already conceived.