A few questions with Marina Abramovic

Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramovic has taken to calling herself the grandmother of performance art. The 63-year-olds career spans back to the early 70s, including an early performance that provided objects (including a feather, grapes, knife, whip, and gun) on a table and allowed the audience to use the objects on the artist as they saw fit. That physically-demanding, line-blurring engagement with her audience has continued throughout her celebrated career, culminating in The Artist is Present, her recent attendance-record-breaking retrospective at MoMA, where the audience was invited to sit in mutual silence with the artist for the entire duration of the exhibit.

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