This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). In an endeavor to transmit the presence of the artist and make her historical performances accessible to a larger audience, the exhibition includes the first live re-performances of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting. In addition, a new, original work performed by Abramović will mark the longest duration of time that she has performed a single solo piece.
Marina Abramovic is a performance artist who actually uses her own body to make her art. Her work is so powerful and can almost be painful and uncomfortable for some people to watch. During one of her pieces she actually put down different objects on a table for people to use on her. The objects ranged from a loaded gun to condoms and even razors. She allowed people to use whatever they wanted on her and took full responsibility for all damages done to her body. The project first started out as very innocent and no actually harm was done to her but than after a couple hours people started to become more comfortable with the idea of using such objects on her and people began to cut her and actually hurt her. Her work to me is so limitless. She has no fear and her work is strong and compelling.
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