Marina Abramovic's Reddit highlights. There's something remarkably compelling about Reddit's interview format; the site allows readers to upgrade or downgrade submissions, ordering pages of chat between posters and a particular subject in a sharp hierarchy of interest.
Little wonder interviewees in the site's ongoing strand Ask Me Anything - who include President Obama, Radiohead's Thom Yorke, and K-Pop sensation Psy - have given some remarkably candid answers. No one would doubt performance artist Marina Abramovic's honesty, yet her session on the site, conducted a few days ago, is certainly worth reading, for the clarity of insight it offers into her life and art. She says, for example, that she had to separate from her lover and artistic collaborator, Ulay, because he got their translator pregnant.
Marina Abramovic gives a virtual tour of the institute. Marina Abramovic Institute Kickstarter Video.
Portrait with scorpion. Marina Abramović at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Marina Abramović - The star (Part 1of 5) Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present. This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen).
In an endeavor to transmit the presence of the artist and make her historical performances accessible to a larger audience, the exhibition includes the first live re-performances of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting. In addition, a new, original work performed by Abramović will mark the longest duration of time that she has performed a single solo piece. (Please note: Abramović will not perform during MoMA Nights.) Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, and Director, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.