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  1. Oct 6, 2012 · In this 2010 photo released by Rio Film Festival, performance artist Marina Abramovic sits during the making of documentary film “Marina Abramovic:The Artist is Present” in New York’s Museum ...

  2. Aug 24, 2023 · In this long-read, performance art pioneer Marina Abramović speaks to Sinéad Gleeson from her New York home, ahead of her long-awaited show. Born in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1946, Marina Abramović is something of a matryoshka figure: an endurance artist within a performance artist within one of the most significant art ...

  3. Oct 2, 2010 · Interview: Marina Abramović. In four decades as a performance artist, Marina Abramović has had a stranger point a loaded gun at her head, sat in silence for 700 hours and set herself on fire ...

    • Sean O’Hagan
  4. Oct 6, 2012 · October 6, 2012. RIO DE JANEIRO - It's taken her 40 years, but performance artist Marina Abramovic says she's learned to relax the iron self-control that's at the heart of her craft. The Belgrade-born artist best known for her piece "The Artist Is Present," which in 2010 saw her sit silent and motionless for 736 1/2 hours opposite a parade of ...

  5. May 23, 2021 · Perhaps best known for 2010’s The Artist is Present, a three-month undertaking at the Museum of Modern Art, for which more than 1,000 people joined her to sit in silence on a pair of wooden chairs (850,000 watched on), Abramović has been using her body to create powerful art for 50 years. In “Rhythm 0” (1974), she invited audience ...

    • Zoe Whitfield
  6. Sep 22, 2023 · Pioneering artist Marina Abramović tells Vogue that her historic Royal Academy of the Arts show is a huge injustice, why her work would not be possible today, and how closing doors opens her student’s minds. Read the Marina Abramović interview on Vogue.

  7. May 1, 2009 · Last year, in Europe, Abramovi�? showed a provocative new multi-screen video, Eight Lessons on Emptiness with a Happy End, and a related photo series, “The Family,” all shot in Laos. She ...