In developing the work, we thought about a simple fact: if there were no artists, there would be no museums. From this idea we decided to make a poetic gesture—the artists would literally become the door to the museum. Ulay built two tall vertical cases in the museum entrance, making it substantially narrower. Our performance would be to stand in this reduced opening, naked and facing each other, like doorposts or classical caryatids. Thus everyone coming in would have to turn sideways to get past us, and everyone would have to make a decision as he or she slid by: face the naked man, or the
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