The absence of the artist is present, performance, 2014

Inspired by Marina Abramović’s “The artist is present” and Piero Manzoni’s ”Base del mondo”, I  offer the presence of my absence as performance art. By displaying the image of a place where I am not, my absence becomes present when and where the image was produced. To document an absence of continental scale I must collaborate with Google. This company has been keeping track of my absence since 2007, and making it available through the Street View tool. 

I can only be present at one place at a time but my absence can be simultaneously present at all other places on the planet, and beyond, to outer space. This is performance at cosmic scale and the largest work of art ever created.