Ulay Interview, Under My Skin Gepubliceerd op 30 nov. 2017 This is the story of legendary artist Ulay, famous for his collaboration with Marina Abramović. As a solo artist in search for his own identity, Ulay’s radical works have pushed the limits of photography and performance using his own body as material. “Art needed a revolution. From early on I liked to revolt.” Being a “half-orphan” war child, born in the ashes of World War II in an air-raid shelter in Solingen, West Germany, at the age of 25 Ulay took his life in his own hands and joined the provos in Amsterdam. In the early 70s he invented the term “performance photography,” taking polaroid photos of himself performing in front of the camera, often dressed up in women’s clothes. Feeling attracted to society’s outcasts he lived in Amsterdam among transvestites, homeless and marginal existences “sharing the camera,” in order to “bridge the relation between the photographer and the model.” After many series of “auto-polaroids,” Ulay came to the conclusion that the answer to his identity search was to question the surface of photography by going under his own skin. “Photography can only stay on the periphery of things, if … Meer lezen over Louisiana Channel – Ulay Interview, Under My Skin