“I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramović is truly a force of nature.
The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito’s regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother’s abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor—all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story—a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe—a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China.
Marina’s story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
评分##真是神奇的一生(也有神叨叨的「神」)。別人跟我說先知算命我一概當成偽科學,但是她說我全信了,因為她這個人全是真,在這本書裡像是透明的一樣,還發著光。
评分 评分 评分##The only time I saw any Abramović-related artwork in a physical art gallery is when I visited the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, with an ex-friend of mine who was nearly obsessed with Marina. We walked past a television showing her aggressively bru...
评分 评分 评分##她本人就是行走的藝術,比生命還廣闊的女人。痛楚不等於受苦,勇於探索人生每個角落的大冒險家,面對兒女私情卻又敏感膽小脆弱。她和 Ulay一段情故然可歌可泣,對藝術的貢獻還得靠 Sex and the City 和 Lady Gaga提升到大眾層面。與Bjork和Susan Sontag晚餐看Teorema實在夢幻。
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