while living in Amsterdam, the couple continued their collaboration until their separation in the late 1980s. Part of a group of avant-garde artists including Vito Acconci and Chris Burden that experimented with using one’s body as a medium in the 1970s, Abramović pushed physical and mental...
This chapter discusses recent strategies to mediatize performance artist Marina Abramović and the narratives created around her work. At the center stands her live performance at the Museum of Modern Art in 2010, which attracted almost one million visitors. While Abramović herself tried to explai...
Marina Abramović, il titolo non poteva essere più d’impatto nella sua semplicità, è curata da Andrea Tarsia ed è aperta al pubblico fino al 1 gennaio 2024, quando lascerà l’Inghilterra alla volta di Amsterdam, Zurigo e poi Tel Aviv. Courtesy of the Marina Abramović Archives. ...
Marina Abramović's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, "The Artist Is Present," she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day ... with powerfully ...
Performance artists and former lovers Marina Abramović and Ulay are to tell their story in a new co-written memoir. The book will survey the duo’s artistic career and turbulent relationship, spanning over a decade. Talking toArtnetin New York, Ulay said: ‘There are so many unbelievable ...
All of this is why, when I first heard the story of Marina Abramović and Ulay (the artist name of Frank Uwe Laysiepen), I was simultaneously intrigued and slightly repelled. The two performance artists met in Amsterdam in 1975, when a gallerist sent Ulay to pick Marina up at the airp...
Ms. Abramović, did you ever doubt that you were an artist? When I taught art I was always asked, “How do you know you’re an artist? What makes you an artist?” And to me it’s like breathing. You don’t question if you breathe, you have to breathe. So if you wake up in...
In 1975 Abramović moved toAmsterdam, and a year later she begancollaboratingwith Frank Uwe Laysiepen (bynameUlay), a like-minded German artist. Much of their work together was concerned withgender identity, most notoriouslyImponderabilia (1977), in which they stood naked while facing each othe...
"Non somigliava a nessuno che avessi mai conosciuto", forse è per questo che Marina Abramović - nonna della performance art come si è autodefinita - viene subito colpita dal fascino selvaggio di Frank Uwe Laysiepen, meglio noto come Ulay, suo primo grande amore deceduto a marzo di...