Watching HBO's
documentary, Marina Abramovic The Artist
is Present, for me, was a very moving experience, to say the
least. It's like going through
withdrawals or some sort of spiritual exorcism.
Understanding and yielding to the silence and mysteries within is very
painful. But stepping through that Door of Pain becomes transformative. For Marina Abramovic, it's a way of life on
which she built an entire career as a performance artist from the early '70s to
the present. Her intense beauty and
haunting charisma will seduce you into another world - into her world. And yet the world in which we live becomes
more than just her world; she sends a universal invitation to challenge your
soul in a way it's never submitted to before.
A pioneer of
performance art, Marina Abramović (born Yugoslavia, 1946) began using her own
body as the subject, object, and medium of her work in the early 1970s. For the
exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, The Museum of Modern
Art’s first performance retrospective, Abramović performed in the Donald B. and
Catherine C. Marron Atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and
May 31, 2010. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist
for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. This
comprehensive photo gallery contains a record of each participant. Please
select “Show info” to see the date and duration of each visitor’s
participation.” The Artist Is Present is Abramovic’s longest performance
to date. [more...]
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