Archive for Performance art

“The knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 7 February 2014 by delclem

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An interview with the famous Serbian American artist Marina Abramović
(with many photos of her spectacular body performances) > full text
(c) A Sky filled with Shooting Stars, 2010

Street Art

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 4 June 2013 by delclem


Intelligent French street performance that undermines xenophobic as well as fundamentalist views of the “Muslim woman”. We’d urgently need some of those in Central Europe…

Interview with HER

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 26 October 2012 by delclem

Interview (c) MoMa / YouTube, 2012

A current exhibition of Marina Abramović‘s works is currently on @ Gallery Krinzinger, Vienna.

‘To make German men cry is not an easy task’

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on 3 March 2012 by delclem

“In silence, with my eyes closed, I spent 5 minutes drinking a glass of water. It was ‘a ritualization of everyday life’ administered to me by Marina Abramović to illustrate the methods behind her art.

The Yugoslavia-born, New York-based Abramovic, is at 65, one of the world’s best-known performance artists: she has rendered herself unconscious, whipped and poisoned herself and stood motionless for six hours while audience members were invited to use any of 75 display objects upon her – including knives and chains.” >read more

(c) Ross Simonini, THE GLOBE & MAIL, 20 February 2012; photo: Michael Falco