Discussion: “Marina Abramovic”
his week we are engaged in looking at both past and present – and in this thread, I am asking you to think about the contemporary artist Marina Abramovic – she is one of the most well known performance artists and I will share a few of her performances here. Some students will really appreciate her take on art history issues such as the portrait, the human body, etc – while others are bored, or unimpressed. First, we see her most famous production at the Museum of Modern Art in New York: How does this performance re-imagine the concept of the portrait?
Marina Abramovic Last Day May 31 2012 The Artist Is Present (9:24)
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At the Museum of Modern art IN New York, Marian engages in an extended performance in which she sits at a wooden table across an empty chair for hours and waits for people to join and lock eyes. Her performance of such a simple act re-imagined the portrait’s concept by stimulating an emotional and overwhelming response from strangers (CursosArteCIEC, 2016). The theatrical performance creates the attribute of time and magnetism, which are present in a portrait. The strangers sitting across her chair were allowed to gaze into her eyes for as long as they pleased. The time aspect of the performance explores how changing the time frame can produce distinct outcomes. The prolonged gaze into her eyes sparks
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