Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovićis a Yugoslav performance artist based in New York. Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over three decades, Abramović has been described as the "grandmother of performance art." She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body."...
NationalitySerbian
ProfessionPerformance Artist
Date of Birth30 November 1946
CountrySerbia
Marina Abramovic quotes about
When you're 50, the best thing to do is dance the Argentinean tango.
Talking about performance is such a strange thing because it's so immaterial. We are talking about soft matter. We are talking about something that is invisible. You can't see it. You can't touch it. You just can feel it.
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.
Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.
For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.
I'm interested in asking: 'What does feminine energy mean?' I don't have answers - I just have questions and interesting examples.
To really change the way society thinks, you have to give your entire being to it until there's nothing left.
Most of the time, the artists are not supposed to wear the fashion. It is always seen as a vanity. But I think I don't need to prove anything in my life. I can honestly say I love fashion and I can be many things at the same time.
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
One of the most wonderful things for me is to watch somebody else perform, where I am the audience - I love this more than ever.
People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.
The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.