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Pianist Igor Levit performs Erik Satie’s marathon composition Vexations, lasting upwards of 16 hours, in a unique event directed and introduced by conceptual artist Marina Abramović.
Igor Levit, pianist
Marina Abramović, director
At this, Levit’s first ever live performance of the work, you can bear witness to the beginning of this feat of endurance, including an introduction from Marina Abramović at 10am.
This ticket is for the 10am slot only, with introduction by Marina Abramović.
In Abramović’s words: ‘What the audience is going to experience and to see is a unique event. They will witness silence, endurance, immobility and contemplation, where time ceases to exist. Igor interprets Vexations with endless repetition, yet constant variation. My role is to prepare the public for this unique experience.’
Vexations is one of classical music’s most simple, yet arduous and demanding, works. The one-page score includes an instruction to repeat it 840 times, which translates to between 16 and 20 hours of continuous playing.
Levit told The Guardian: ‘The sheer duration of over 20 hours of Vexations doesn’t feel like a nuisance or torture to me as the title would suggest, but rather a retreat of silence and humility, reflecting a feeling of resistance.’
Abramović is the world’s most famous performance artist. Throughout her practice, Abramović has blurred the lines between the observer and the observed as they pertain to performance.
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
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