Marina Abramovic
Abramovic is a Yugoslavian performance artist from who since1965 has used her body as the medium to explore personal experiences of pain, power, abuse, relationship and punishment. In her performance she places her body as the object and the subject. According to Sue Scott in her essay “Marina Abramovic: Between Life and Death”, the violence and self abuse the artist imposed on her own body had been always in her life. The artist defines her performances not as feminist body art. She said, “When feminism became an issue, I was in Yugoslavia. In Yugoslavia women were partisans, absolutely in power…I never felt that I didn’t have things because I was a woman.” Her work, full of symbolism, is focused on the area between the body and the mind.
The artist uses the performance as a medium, using knives, fire, animals, objects, and the most important element: her body.
References
Marina Abromovic’s Performance: Stresses on the Body and Psych in Installation Art. By: Turim, Maureen. Camera Obscura, Dec2003, Vol. 18 Issue 54, p98-117, 20p.
Scott, Sue. “Marina Abramovic : Between Life and Death: After the Revolution Women Who Transforms Contemporary Art, Prestel Press, 2007.
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