Marina Abramovic

Read a great book on Marina Abramovic from the library, couldn't get it out because I am not enrolled. ya. Her performative works are experiences that she wanted the audience to share. Seeing her perform these acts on her own body you can imagine yourself in her situation, her body as your own. There is a fascination that comes with seeing people self harm; you know it hurts and you try to understand their particular reason for doing it.

Her work is 'pure process', the end result is not the focus of the piece it is the act and the doing that is the point of interest. In this work she is submissive and totally at the mercy of the spectators, in an interview she states that the 'courage to do the piece was male'.... whhaaaatttt? The documentation although not the focus if the work is amazing, the progression over time captured in photographs shows her eventually naked and bleeding and it looks like she has tears in her eyes; other than that she shows no emotion.

Balklan Baroque 1997 involved her cleaning heaps and heaps of bloodied beef bones. very labour intensive, punishing, enduring. only really interested in it for the fact that it used bones and cleaned them... dot dot dot