Marina Abramovic: Re: Performance
Flash Art, Fall 2005, no. 38, pp. 86-9
An interview with Marina Abramovic about what she expects from the documentation of a performance piece, including what role that documentation is supposed to play in the experience of the performance. She also discusses what it means for performance works to be revisited and reinterpreted by the artist, or by different artists.
ITEM 2005.134 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful – Marina Abramovic
Nude with Skeleton – Marina Abramovic
Nightsea Crossing – Marina Abramovic
The Biography – Marina Abramovic
The Biography Remix – Marina Abramovic
Light/Dark – Marina Abramovic
Seven Easy Pieces – Marina Abramovic
A Little Bit of History Repeated – Jens Hoffinann
Fresh Acconci – Mike Kelley
Action Pants: Genital Panic – Valie Export
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare – Joseph Beuys
Count on Us – Marina Abramovic
Balkan Baroque – Marina Abramovic