Marina Abramović is a Serbian performance artist. Her work often involves the human body and relationships between artists and audience. She was raised in Serbia, first by her grandmother until the age of 6, when she moved in with her parents and newborn brother. She was beaten by her mother growing up and had no freedom from her parents as a adult until she left her husband and moved to Amsterdam. The first piece she performed was ‘Rhythm 10′ in 1973. She played the Russian Knife Game in which one stabs the space between their fingers on a table with a knife. She recorded the sounds of the piece then tried to replicate it, cutting herself and all. This was the beginning of her work with the limitations of the human mind and body during performance.
Now, he is based in New York and is 69 years old. One of her more recent works is ‘The Artist Is Present’ (2010) which was an exhibit held at MoMA. During this exhibit, Abramović sat motionless and silent for a total 736.5 hours over the run of the exhibit. As she sat, audience members were invited to sit in a chair opposite her while she maintained eye contact the entire time. 1,545 people ended up sitting across from her over the span of the exhibit including many celebrities.
The video I have included is of Abramović’s famous 1975 piece, ‘Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful’.
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