Marina Abramovic

Date

1945–

Description

City of birth: Belgrade
Country of birth: Serbia
Field of activity: Culture — performance

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Quotes

'You know, art is very emotional business. But mostly it becomes not emotional, the fabric of commodity. It becomes business. It becomes so many different things. Because we forgot there was emotions involved. I think I kind of opened the top by creating the “Artist is Present” piece, and it becomes really extremely emotional event.'

Author

Marina Abramovic

Speaker

Marina Abramovic

Title of the publication

'Artist Marina Abramovic Sits for an Interview'

Other contributors

Rachel Dodes, interviewer

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

The Wall Street Journal

City of publication

New York City

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

1 June 2010

Location [pp. or web]

blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/06/01/artist-marina-abramovic-sits-for-an-interview/ (accessed 10 November, 2016)

Other location

n/a

Original language

English

Genre

Online interview

Context

In 2010, performance artist Abramovic staged a three-month installation at MOMA, in New York City, in which she sat in a chair for seven to ten-hours per day and allowed gallery patrons to sit opposite her. Abramovic gazed at the individual, without speaking or moving, and this frequently provoked a strong emotional reaction in the participants.

'I gazed into the eyes of many people who were carrying such pain inside that I could immediately see it and feel it', she says, still sounding excited. 'I become a mirror for them of their own emotions. One big Hell's Angel with tattoos everywhere stared at me fiercely, but after 10 minutes was collapsing into tears and weeping like a baby.'

Author

Sean O’Hagan

Speaker

Marina Abramovic

Title of the publication

“Interview: Marina Abramovic”

Other contributors

Sean O’Hagan, interviewer

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

The Guardian

City of publication

London

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United Kingdom

Publication date

3 October 2010

Location [pp. or web]

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/03/interview-marina-abramovic-performance-artist (10 November, 2016)

Other location

n/a

Original language

English

Genre

Online interview

Context

In 2010, performance artist Abramovic staged a three-month installation at MOMA, in New York City, in which she sat in a chair for seven to ten-hours per day and allowed gallery patrons to sit opposite her. Abramovic gazed at the individual, without speaking or moving, and this frequently provoked a strong emotional reaction in the participants.

'This is what I think: to be a performance artist, you have to hate theatre. Theatre is fake: there is a black box, you pay for a ticket, and you sit in the dark and see somebody playing somebody else’s life. The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real. It’s a very different concept. It’s about true reality.'

Author

Marina Abramovic

Speaker

Marina Abramovic

Title of the publication

'Robert Ayers in Conversation with Marina Abramovic'

Other contributors

Robert Ayers, interviewer

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

A Sky Filled with Shooting Stars

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

10 March 2010

Location [pp. or web]

www.askyfilledwithshootingstars.com/wordpress/?p=1197 (accessed 10 November 2016)

Other location

n/a

Original language

English

Genre

online interview

Context

In 2010, performance artist Abramovic staged a three-month installation at MOMA, in New York City, in which she sat in a chair for seven to ten-hours per day and allowed gallery patrons to sit opposite her. Abramovic gazed at the individual, without speaking or moving, and this frequently provoked a strong emotional reaction in the participants.

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