Marina Abramović The Artist is Present trailer HBO

Source: MoMa website www.moma.org

For the exhibition Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present, The Museum of Modern Art's first performance retrospective, Abramović performed in the Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium every day the Museum was open between March 14 and May 31, 2010. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. The Artist Is Present is Abramovic's longest performance to date.

This is the trailer for the documentary film "The Artist is Present" by HBO.
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[ElisabethWaldo]

someone please tell me what that dude was doing with the black square on his face at 1:20... anyone know?

[Poledanceofthestars]

That was a sort of intrusion, an attempt to make himself the main charachter in the piece. Police prompty took him away from the performance

[Poledanceofthestars]

Well, I've decided to spend part of my afternoon only to give a proper answer to Your comment. 1. Her parents were both partisans and friends with Tito.

2. She's always condemned the horrors of the ethnic cleasing in Yugoslavia in the 90's. 3. When she's asked about her origins she answers she comes from a country that no longer exixts. She doens't depict herself as a Serbian. If you don't know something enough, why do you judge him/her in this exaggerated way?

I don't see the point. Really.

[ElisabethWaldo]

Life is art. Its not about "getting" or understanding something. The art just has to simply provoke thoughts that you otherwise would not have had. Its all about your own interpretation. Do not pay to the people you call smarter or deeper. enjoy

[leapingthrutime]

Artist is present, art, unfortunately, was unable to attend.

[eoinoneill91]

Fucking idiot.

[TypicalDream]

Shut the fuck up pleb.

[tom613]

1:17 RHYTHM 0

[Kai Yost]

I feel like the expression that is being put forth here is just the fact that you are a stranger. You have not known this woman personally. And when you sit down in that chair, and you simply look at her, and you make eye contact for a whole minute in complete silence... Have you ever looked someone straight in the eye for a whole minute? You notice everything. You see their past, and their fears.  Emotion is expressed through the eyes, primarily. And there is so much intensity in them.

[PropaneCowboy]

Bored to tears?

[Seja157]

People tend to say things like "oh a dog poop can be called art nowadays". Well go ahead.. if there's a real, unfake story behind it..

What Marina did is nothing revolutionary. She just said - okay, I will sit here for 3 months and give 100% of myself to anybody that sits in front of me. The thing is - no matter how simple this concept is, nobody did that before her and suddenly people stop in their silly routines, just for this natural human eye-contact. I see the whole meaning of life there.

[Seja157]

I start to find it funny, how people are tending to define what's "art" and what isn't like there would be anything that would separate the art from the reality. In my opinion, any form of art, when expressed out of the mind of the artist, becomes reality. The art is what lets us see the essence of being human in every aspect of our lives, great or small.



[leapingthrutime]

The artist is present... the art isnt.

[mrbloodshugar]

I don't find it ridiculous, rather disturbing :p

But it's intresting