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Fri, Oct 26 2012 14:07:28

Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21

On Friday, October 26, 2012, artist Eleanor Antin took over the @Art21 Twitter account to perform a reading from her memoir, "Conversations with Stalin," before embarking on four New York-based performances. The artist responded to audience questions following the performance.

  1. Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 | Art21
    On Friday, October 26 at 2:00 p.m. EST, Art21 featured artist Eleanor Antin will take over Art21's Twitter account (@Art21). Through post...
    Art21
  2. art21
    Art21@art21
    Welcome to a very special Twitter reading and performance by Eleanor Antin. Follow and respond using #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:03:06
  3. art21
    Art21@art21
    For the next hour, Eleanor Antin will be taking over @art21 to read from her memoir, "Conversations with Stalin" #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:03:57
  4. art21
    Art21@art21
    All are welcome to tweet questions and responses during the reading. Eleanor will post responses following the reading. #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:04:54
  5. Saying hello from Art21 HQ, Eleanor Antin with her friend Ellen, along with Director of Education, @rflouty (far right) and Director of Digital Media and Strategy, @jonnymoon (far left). Photo via the Art21 Instagram by Associate Producer, @IanJForster.
  6. Big thanks to Eleanor Antin for taking over our Twitter today. Please join us in welcoming her! #AntinCWS
    Art21
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    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:07:42
  7. JDelFabulous
    Jennifer F. Del Pozo@JDelFabulous
    @art21 Wow....hi! #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:10:29
  8. art21
    Art21@art21
    And with that, Eleanor will now begin her reading of a story from "Conversations with Stalin" #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:08:55
  9. Eleanor took Twitter microphone from this point to begin her reading.
  10. art21
    Art21@art21
    But god is like chocolates. He can explode gloriously in your mouth though even if you’re careful... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:09:41
  11. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...and nibble at him in small bites, sooner or later, usually sooner, he’s gone, leaving you lonely and forlorn. #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:11:09
  12. art21
    Art21@art21
    Some years later when I was in high school, I remember desperately falling down on my knees when I thought I was pregnant... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:12:23
  13. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...and begging god for help. I don’t remember who the father was, and maybe I didn’t even know, but when I missed a period... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:13:32
  14. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...I was terrified the way we all used to be in those days when abortions were done in back alleys with slimy amateurs... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:14:41
  15. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...and dirty knives. Now I didn’t know anything about that really, I had never had an abortion or known anyone who had... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:15:35
  16. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...and for all I knew you could find a decent doctor willing to help a poor girl for a hundred bucks. #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:16:29
  17. art21
    Art21@art21
    But that was a lot of money in those days. I certainly didn’t have it. I only got 75 cents an hour for baby sitting... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:17:25
  18. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...and I was saving for an angora sweater. My parents wouldn’t kill me but they’d yell and... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:18:23
  19. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...my mother would wring her hands and cry. Though if I worked it right, maybe I could taunt my father into hitting me... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:19:32
  20. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...and my mother would rush to protect me while I crouched on the floor protecting my face... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:20:25
  21. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...and she would call him a brute and suddenly he was the bad one, not me. But in the end... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:21:16
  22. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...they’d help me to get a safe abortion, I knew that, I was 16 years old, for god’s sake,... #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:23:12
  23. art21
    Art21@art21
    ...but they had their own troubles and I was ashamed for them to know I wasn’t a virgin anymore. #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:24:11
  24. art21
    Art21@art21
    So better all around if god could help. #AntinCWS
    Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:25:23

  25. First Photo Break

    Eleanor contemplates a tweet. Photo from the Art21 Instagram account by Associate Producer, @IanJForster

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