Sorrow on repeat: Ragnar Kjartansson on endurance art
Ragnar Kjartansson on his passion for ambitious, long-duration performances.
Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson joins guest host Candy Palmater to discuss his passion for long-duration art, including his marathon collaboration with indie rockers The National. Under Kjartansson's direction, the band played the song Sorrow over and over again for six hours in a New York gallery.
Kjartansson's ambitious, long-duration performances have critics looking to him as a potential heir to performance art pioneers like Marina Abramovic.
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The National perform their song Sorrow over and over again at MoMA. (Elisabet Davidsdottir)