Marina Abramovic Analysis

Artists use their artworks to communicate different meanings and transfer specific messages to the audience. Their artworks can be presented in different forms like architecture, drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery and many other forms. Each artwork contains a specific meaning which is usually based on the artist 's beliefs, culture, identity and the nature surrounding us. Rona Rubuntja from the Hermannsburg Potters, Bronwyn Oliver, Christo and Jeanne Claude each presented their art in different forms but they all communicate meanings and ideas to the audience. Rona Rubuntja who is a senior member of the Hermannsburg Potters and her famous pottery work ‘I 'm Black’ for the exhibition ‘Our Land is Alive’ at the National Gallery of

While the speaker has succeeded in providing an enhanced image of the performer, the act of assigning meaning to the performance and the representation used holds the capacity to limit the experience. As the speaker continues to reconfigure her strip tease into a “[graceful] and calm” artistic dance, he makes a simultaneous attempt to distance himself from the crowd, making no mention of his gender or race directly (5). However, the speaker’s attempt to portray the dancer from objective eyes falters as his

This piece was created during a time of political and social change. Increased political awareness and a focus on celebrity demanded art that was more

Though one important concept to take in the tone this forum was open it developed an avenue for activist to continue working. An example of this is that of the development of the feminist movement. In which within the US rather than simply to give it an opinion it served to provide a dispute to such as including the Gorilla Women who fight against the way women are portrayed in media. Another example within this can then be Yoko Ono, “Cut Pieces” in which she hopes to express to her public and there view towards her as nothing more than a sexual object. Overall through both of these examples we see that the point of this format above all is simply to make the audience aware. Because of the political climate with Cuba Tania Bruguera is not only a revolutionary artist but as well provides a voice. Within her art whether in Chicago, Cuba or Colombia she creates performance arts that serve to question others and elements form their environments. In this case we are going to focus on two of her works with reference to Cuba. Although this format is hard to known when it became present in Cuba we see that it hold a voice for its

Born in November 30th, 1946, the 67-year-old artist, Marina Abramović, has done numerous jaw-dropping performances throughout her entire existence. Also known as the “grandmother of performance art”, her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind (Wikipedia, 2014)

In response to the work of Cindy Sherman, I did not know she was considered an “artist” because her works are mostly of photography and film director. This is because I believe that her works is more of motion work more than art. However, when I looked it up, her work is definitely art captured in motion. I feel like her art is very different from the other artist, and that it more like an aesthetic form of art. Before this assignment, I did not know that Cindy Sherman was a photographer or a film director and it was interesting to know that she one.

Marina Abramovic is known for completely excluding using paint and canvas for her art. She is a performance artist, Marina uses her body as the medium between her and the audience. In her piece “The Artist is Present”, she sits with hundreds of people for several months without showing any emotion. Marina is simply present at the moment she is sitting with different people, while the person sitting shows tremendous feelings towards Marina. Marina has a gift of making people think she is in love with them. Her fans that were able to sit with her explain their time with Marina as life changing. She is the greatest living performance artist and that is why she is why she will be remembered as the grandmother of performance

In 2010 from March 14–May 31, 2010 (750 hours) Marina Abramovic held a retrospective of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artist had her pieces re-performed by a group of young performance artists whom she hand picked and trained herself. This decision shows the artist was ready not only to pass on the baton to a new generation of performance artists but also of creating a final distance between the personal aspect of her relationship with Ulay and the work they created as a pair. By having the work performed by someone else the personal story in which it was created disappears to make way for a more literal interpretation of the piece. Her performances where then not a story of her personal struggles but a exercise for people to try

Performance art is live in motion and real, a person can grab the concept of the message being told or shown in a short time, just by listening and watching. Performance art subject can be analyzed to be biographical and contextual analysis, since it does focus on real life events that are taking place in the world. All five of the performance art that Tania has done, depending on the subject, all spread awareness to the public. We should actually take Tania Bruguera as an artist and her art work into consideration, because it not only delivers a message, but she opens her audience mind to think deeper. Everything that is going on in the world is not always on big screen news stations, sometimes it takes a famous artist to point out the important issues going on in our society that we don’t see on television. Tania Bruguera encourages her audience to see things in a different horizon, and not just from a selfish angle when it comes down to certain issues and topics that affect the world and the people in

The One Woman Show 1960-1971 is Yoko Ono’s debut at the Museum of Modern Art (though some would call it her second). Her first experience with MoMA was in 1971 when she announced that she would be holding an exhibit at the museum, when viewers arrived they found out her works had been her releasing flies out of a bottle and invited anyone to try to find them across the city. ‘One Woman Show’ is an exhibit that revolves mainly around Yoko Ono, the former wife of The Beatles’ John Lennon. The exhibit’s focus on Yoko Ono is a revisitation on her past performances and works of art which solidified the artist as an original thinking avant-garde artist. Her pieces are all commentaries on what we find socially acceptable, in which she sends this message

Marina Abramovic is a performance artist who brought a new concept of uniqueness that focuses on physical boundaries of the human figure. She is trying to make performance art a great medium in Art history. Although there are many performing artist in the world before her, she has been described as the “grandmother of performance art.” After watching the documentary about Marina art work, I will answer the five question posted in blackboard.

There are many things that can be said about Marina Abramovic’s works, particularly her MOMA performance “The Artist Is Present”, but I think that everyone would agree they are if anything compelling. The film that we viewed, centered around that ambitious performance, allowed us to get a sense of Marina, from her early years as a rather unknown Yugoslavian artist, her relationship with Ulay that had the biggest impact on her as artist and a person, to the late years of her career in which she found fame. The performance at MOMA was one of the most interesting works I’ve ever witnessed. In addition to having her admirers as mere viewers of her work, she found a way to engage with them in a very intense and profound way. I felt that the performance

Mona Hatoum was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952. She came to the UK in 1975, where she remained following the outbreak of civil war in her homeland. Mona Hatoum has received wide recognition due to conceptual works, mainly the performances, videos, objects and installations. Most of the critics consider her art through political and geographical approach and Mona call this approach - “journalistic” in her interviews she states that the most important element of her art is its relationship to the body, tactile sensations and human relationships [1], but after studying her works I disagree with this kind of statements, I think she widely exploit her own story, political and geographical background to bring more sense to her art.

Allow the body of art is speak for itself, and to those involved. Artaud wanted theatre to become a place where art is stripped away, without being heavily dependent on written word and poetry. He believed that ‘theatre be pared down, be kept as free from mediating elements as possible-including the mediation of the written text.’ (Sontag, 1972:35). On the contrary, Artaud was a man who first experimenting with written text, and was heavily influenced by what he read and saw, his choice to commit to completely eliminating text is profound but it does not take away the confusion of what Artaud wanted to accomplish. Artaud was a man who explored many artistic avenues but failed to fully commit to any artistic route. As a failed practitioner, one can say that Artaud himself was unsure of his particular interest in direction, but nonetheless, his openness to exploration made him incredibly influential, specifically seen in Grotowski’s work. Sontag continues to elaborate on this idea and view of Artaud that it was important to Artaud that one simply focuses on what the body speak, without talking but by the physical movement of the body, and making noises such as screaming, chants and any other

Through this essay I am going to explore the Cultural Body in the works and career of Melati Suryodarmo. In aid of my research and exploration I will consider two of the most influential artists during her training and two of her works: Rindu, her first solo performance in 1996, and Ballad of Treasures, performed in 2004. The Cultural Body in performance is the presentation of a person or country’s culture through the body. It could be shown through the interpretation or performance of an art form that means something to the heritage of a country, civilisation or period in time. Melati takes inspiration for her pieces from her experiences in the world and uses them to express her pain and struggle of being “a foreigner in Germany” (Tsai, 2013) during her training, the beginning of her career and her life following her move there with her husband. She “attempts to push through” everyday experiences and present cultural and political encounters “that would stimulate the discovery of new identification”. Melati produces “a concentrated level of nervous intensity, a bodily experience that does not have any narrative”, which leads to a factual absurdity outcome in the performance that is welcome in Suryodarmo’s work (Pearl Lam Galleries, undated). Melati trained with Anzu Furukawa, an expert Butoh dance professor, and Marina Abramović to gain her experience in performance art while she lived in Germany during the 1990s. Following her training, Melati has gone on to present her works at many international festivals and exhibitions around the globe; and since 2007 has organised an annual performance art event, Undisclosed Territory, and a Performance Art Laboratory in Indonesia. Melati, despite not originally choosing performance art as her career path, now finds that using un-verbalised communication “opens the door to the different forms of perception” and “the mind’s freedom to interpret these inputs is a fascinating area of research” which Melati is very fond of (Pearl Lam Galleries, undated).