page_title: Marina Abramović
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hierarchical_section_title: Marina Abramović / Career / Other
caption_attribution_description: English: Marina Abramovic PHOTO CREDIT: ANDERS KRUSBERG / PEABODY AWARDS 72nd Annual Peabody Awards Luncheon Waldorf-Astoria Hotel May 20, 2013
context_page_description: Marina Abramović is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist, philanthropist and art filmmaker. Her work explores body art, endurance art and feminist art, the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Being active for over four decades, Abramović refers to herself as the "grandmother of performance art". She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body".
context_section_description: In 2009, Abramović was featured in Chiara Clemente's documentary Our City Dreams and a book of the same name. The five featured artists – also including Swoon, Ghada Amer, Kiki Smith, and Nancy Spero – "each possess a passion for making work that is inseparable from their devotion to New York," according to the publisher. Abramović is also the subject of an independent feature documentary movie entitled Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, which is based on her life and performance at her retrospective "The Artist Is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art in 2010. The film was broadcast in the United States on HBO and won a Peabody Award in 2012. In January 2011, Abramović was on the cover of Serbian ELLE, photographed by Dušan Reljin. Kim Stanley Robinson's science fiction novel 2312 mentions a style of performance art pieces known as "abramovics."
  A world premiere installation by Abramović was featured at Toronto's Trinity Bellwoods Park as part of the Luminato Festival in June 2013. Abramović is also co-creator, along with Robert Wilson of the theatrical production The Life and Death of Marina Abramović, which had its North American premiere at the festival, and at the Park Avenue Armory in December.
  Abramović attempted to create the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a nonprofit foundation for performance art, in a 33,000 square-foot space in Hudson, New York. She also founded a performance institute in San Francisco. She is a patron of the London-based Live Art Development Agency.
  In June 2014 she presented a new piece at London's Serpentine Gallery called 512 Hours. In the Sean Kelly Gallery-hosted "Generator," (December 6, 2014) participants are blindfolded and wear sound-cancelling headphones in an exploration of nothingness.
  In celebration of her 70th birthday on November 30, 2016, Abramović took over (once again) the Guggenheim museum (eleven years after her previous happening there) for her birthday party entitled "Marina 70". Part one of the evening, titled "Silence," lasted 70 minutes, ending with the crash of a gong struck by the artist. Then came the more conventional part two: "Entertainment," during which Abramović took to the stage to make a speech before watching English singer and visual artist ANOHNI (who was part of the entertainment at this summer's Watermill Benefit in the Hamptons) perform Frank Sinatra's classic number "My Way" while wearing a large black Hood.
  In March 2015, Abramović presented her TED talk titled, "An art made of trust, vulnerability and connection."
  In 2019, IFC's mockumentary show Documentary Now! parodied Abramović's work and the documentary film Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present. The episode, titled Waiting for the Artist, starred Cate Blanchett as Isabella Barta (Abramović) and Fred Armisen as Dimo (Ulay.)
  Originally set to open 26 September 2020, her first major exhibition in the UK at the Royal Academy of Arts has been rescheduled for autumn 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the Academy, the exhibition will "bring together works spanning her 50-year career, along with new works conceived especially for these galleries. As Abramović approaches her mid-70s, her new work reflects on changes to the artist's body, and explores her perception of the transition between life and death."
caption: Marina Abramović at the 72nd Annual Peabody Awards, 2013
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