Today in class we discussed Marina Abramovic, a performance artist. She is recognized as one of the leading international practioners of performance art, she also works with video and life-sized polariod. "Her performance strategy was to use the body as art-making material, presenting herself as art objects to explore and transcend the physical and psychological limitations of the self". (eai.org) From researching the type of performance art Abramovic and her partner Ulay engages in is very strange. "Marina Abramovic and Ulay irritate profoundly the visitors of a performance when they beat each other until exhaustion or physically clash. The duration of time stretches endlessly so that the shere physical impact is extreme". (MediaArtNet) This is just extremely weird to me.(Posted by Kaitlyn)
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