![]() ![]() MB: And then, of course, it was presented at the Hirshhorn, when I was a curator there, as part of a group exhibition in 2018-ultimately, the Hirshhorn and the Smithsonian went on to purchase Be My Muse, which was the second work of performance that the Smithsonian had purchased, the first being a piece by Tino Sehgal. In that version of the work, I performed in a gallery that was closed off, so the performance was only the muse and myself-no one else could watch it. I performed it at an artist-run collective called Yeah Maybe. I believe in 2017, related to a Walker Art Center exhibition, it was in FD13 -is that an artist-run not-for-profit? ![]() MB: It seems of interest that Be My Muse has passed through many different types of spaces. In some sense, these works became the set in which I performed. As a resident at the Villa, I performed inside of the exhibition, within and amongst the various installations. ![]() Each artist took a room of the Villa and created work with the notion of decoration in mind. Asad Raza, Tino Sehgal, and Dorothea von Hantelmann curated an exhibition called Decor with works by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe, and Daniel Buren, among others. Moriah Evans: Yes, it was at the Villa Empain in Brussels in 2016. It's been presented in very different spaces, from gallery to museum, and to different audiences-was it first presented at the Villa Empain in Brussels? This was its fourth presentation and its first time in New York. As I understand it, it has been presented three times before. Mark Beasley: We are here to discuss your presentation of Be My Muse at Pace Gallery in 2021. The following transcript has been edited and condensed for clarity. During their wide-ranging conversation, Beasley and Evans parse the origins and structure of the work, examine the performance’s disruptive qualities, and more. If you’re in the US or Canada, text me at 94 and I’ll send you daily text messages that help you grow and discover yourself every day.In a recent interview, Mark Beasley, curatorial director of Pace Live, and choreographer and artist Moriah Evans discussed the performances of Be My Muse at Pace Gallery in New York this fall. Discover the 7 Fundamentals To Self Improvement and instantly accelerate your growth! (Who knows what you might be overlooking and how it’s holding you back…) On your personal development journey, you need to be sure you have the right foundation in place. And to make that more tangible, I want you to try reciting this affirmation to yourself to see how it feels for you - “I am my own muse”. Believing in your potential, believing in the greatness inside of you. The first step on this mission is believing it. ![]() Of course we don’t live this completely, that’s our human nature, but our mission is to access all of this potential within us and work through all of the things that are getting in the way. You are deeply connected to goodness and abundance. You already have everything that you’ll ever need. Your muse is your best-self that is starting to come out in some ways and still remaining latent in others. You have the example within you that you’ve been looking to model. You speak the language of your soul better than anything else. Yes you, that human who sees yourself for all your flaws and shortcomings. I want to help you not only discover your muse but teach you that you are your greatest source of inspiration. This means that we all have our own muse that inspires us in the most profound and intuitive of ways, but we may not be connected to it because we don’t have the vocabulary to explore it. We are all artists of sorts whether we identify as such or not. My addition to this definition is that I’d argue we are all creators. It’s described as something that is much more visceral, much more personified, and in that way it permeates layers deeper. Since artists are usually more expressive, unconventional, and free-spirited people, this source of inspiration has a different connotation to it. It’s often applied to describe artists and where they draw their creative inspiration from. And that word is “muse”.Ī muse is the inspiration for a creator. It’s an underappreciated and underspoken term because it’s typically reserved for a certain type of person, and I think it’s a disservice to the intention of the word. For Thursday positivity I wanted to share a reflection I had about a word that has come up consistently over the last few months. ![]()
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