Marina Abramović (born 1st November1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a renowned performance artist. She began her career in the early 1970s; the body has always been her subject and medium, exploring the boundaries of physical and mental potential.
In 1975, Abramović met Ulay, an artist with whom she shared the same day of birth and similar artistic interests. For the next two decades, they lived and worked together.
Abramovic has carried out a number of pivotal and dangerous performances, including her series of Rhythm performances. In Rhythm 5, she lay down inside a burning star of wood and had to be rescued by spectators. In Rhythm 0, perhaps her most infamous performance, she asked her audience to use various items -- some of them dangerous -- on her however they wished; according to one report,
By the third hour, her clothes had been cut from her body with razor blades, her skin slashed; a loaded gun held to her head finally caused a fight between her tormentors, bringing the proceeding to an unnerving halt.
External links
Artist's page in Artfacts.Net (http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/7066) with actual major exhibitions.
Guggenheim page (http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/movement_work_md_Performance_1A_2.html) on Abramovic, with image from Rhythm 5.
MarinaAbramovic's art-life performances share with the work of Antoni and Lacy an engagement with the haptic dimensions of aesthetic connection.
While the aspirational engagement of Abramovic's work has been characterized by practices that test her limits and transform her, on the ontological level her concern has been to establish an aesthetic frame that intensifies processes of embodiment.
Abramovic made a distinction between cultural tourism as a kind of voyeuristic exploitation, and "using" people of other cultures, and going to one place for a long time, involving oneself there, forming relationships, and letting something happen.
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