2016-11-20: During an art-themed weekend across the station, Jarvis chats to performance artist Marina Abramovic. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body and the possibilities of the mind. She has just written her memoir, Walk Through Walls, and talks to Jarvis about her tough childhood; discovering art; the compulsion to create; and the discomfort of her most famous piece, The Artist Is Present (2010). She also explains how Asian meditation techniques inform her work and how she has used them to help others. Plus, we hear a recording of a speech by Leonard Cohen, in which he remembers his first steps in playing guitar and songwriting. Jarvis highlights an interesting exhibition in Paris, The Great Animal Orchestra, a celebration of art, science and the music of the natural world. And listeners suggest a song with an arty connection.
Rodney Graham - I'm Running Away to Join Cirque Du Soleil
Martin Creed - Alphabet
Róisín Murphy - Sitting and Counting
Riz Ortolani - Cannibal Holocaust (Opening Theme)
[Leonard Cohen speech, 'How I Got My Song']
Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
Antony and The Johnsons - Cut the World
Brigitte Bardot - Contact
The House of Love - Beatles and The Stones
Igor Levit - JS Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988, Aria with 30 Variations (Var. 30)
Nathan Halpern - The Artist Is Present / Open Eyes (Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present OST)
Silvain Vanot - Pop Art Raga
A Gilbert Play - Do the Standing Still
Devo - Freedom of Choice
TOY - Dream Orchestrator
Anuradha and Kavita Paudwal - The Gayatri Mantra
The Stooges - We Will Fall
BBC National Orchestra of Wales (et al) - The Great Animal Orchestra Symphony, III. Elegy
[Bernie Krause explains the concept of Biophony]
The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (1989 Pure Trance Original)
