Marina Abramović: The Radical Power of Presence
Marina Abramović The Body That Makes the Gaze Responsible Marina Abramović is one of the defining figures of performance art. Born in Belgrade in 1946, she has spent more than five decades testing the limits of the body, the mind, the audience and the artwork itself. Her importance does not lie only in the intensity of her performances. It lies in the way she transformed presence into material. In Abramović’s work, the body is not represented. It is exposed, disciplined, endangered, emptied, watched and made radically available. The body becomes the place where fear, attention, trust, violence, endurance and transformation can no longer remain abstract. Abramović does not use performance as theatre. She uses it as a system of confrontation....