Abramović changed culture with her art and is still creating a storm. She tells Lillian Crawford about breaking taboos, and how some of her work could no longer be performed.
Abramović changed culture with her performance art and at 76, is still creating a storm. She talks to Lillian Crawford about breaking taboos, and how some of her work could no longer be performed.At Studio Morra, Naples in 1974, for six hours, it was possible to be in the same room as Marina Abramović.
These images are projected in a gallery room at the current Marina Abramović retrospective at London's Royal Academy. The question of how to display Rhythm 0 was first resolved, at least to an extent, in 2010 for a similar exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art , New York – to show these photographs around a long table, altar-like at the head of the room, with the 72 objects offered to those original viewers in 1974 to use on the artist's body.
While one can watch films of many of Abramović's 1970s performances, to engage with her retrospective is to accept the ephemerality of her art. Abramović writes in her memoir that she loved a quote from fellow performance art pioneer Yves Klein:"My paintings are but ashes of my art." But there is still a need for legacy, longevity, and perhaps even notoriety for the artist.
I have been asked over and over again: why is this art, and why is there nudity? I will never get used to it One of the new generation of artists performing at the MAI Takeover is Cassils, a transgender artist who uses the material of their body to explore the physical fluidity of gender. Their performance, Tiresias, sees them melt neoclassical Greek male torsos carved out of ice with their body heat. Asked about the role of danger in performance art, Cassils tells BBC Culture that it is a misconception that performance must involve physical risk.
Garcia's piece, Noise Body – It’s Not Done Yet, promises to rupture the traditional, static nature of art by inviting her audience to cover her body with industrial iron scraps that will attach through magnets."The sound of nails being thrown at a body covered by magnets is a powerful reminder of danger," she says."People close to the work feel the sensation of sound in their body, so it is as if the action is happening directly to them.
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