The Artist is Present

"Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again.

At her 2010 MoMa retrospective Marina performed 'The Artist Is Present' as part of the show, where she shared a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing and this is what happened."

Http://zengarage.com.au/2013/03/marina-abramovic-and-ulay

Watch this and cry with me.

Ommgggg <3 <3 I want to know what happened next! The suspense is killing me!

Out of breath !!

See if you can find their performance titled Breathing In/Breathing Out... It's INTENSE.

How ironic! We always surfer from stale air, but when the fresh air strikes we go out of breath!

Pneumo, is that the one where they are inhaling each other's exhalations and they both collapse unconscious? I've only read about it.

What do you all think about performance art in general?

I have to say I've never seen performance art before....I've never been much of an art person as far as paintings or scultping goes, probably because I am so far from artistic I can only draw stick figures lol..

However, I absolutely loved this. I was incredibly intrigued by it, because with performance art, its a bit different from staring at a painting and trying to figure out what it is. Here we not only get to try and figure out what her motives are for doing this, or what her goal is with this, but we get to see the way the brain/body reacts when overcome with emotion.

Truly, I was fascinated with this, thank you for sharing.

Thanks, Chelsey, I agree wholeheartedly with you.

Emotional moment when the Ulay guy turned up without at doubt but...he wasn't expected to right? so...was this performance without him based totally on strangers rocking up and sitting on a seat starting at a person for one minute while she opened her eyes for a second then closed them again and...did they pay to put their bums in the seat if so ..how much?

Perfornance art falls into many categories...clowns, mime artist ect...there are more I know but...the two I've mentioned entertain the audience...I knew this Ulay guy was coming one otherwise it would have been boring if this is all she done...was it?

I too liked it and was stricken by it then I followed the artist and found out that the whole thing it very commercialized::

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts66t9muFfQ

I never went there...this is purely my thoughts...I cannot be enternained nor would I pay money to sit across from someone who for the majority of her time keeps her eyes closed....hell I do that all day in between my babysitting bouts...come visit me....pretty sure my expressions would be more well ..avante garde ...

When I saw the clip first I wept. I felt it. At first for me it was the moment of recognition, something totally spiritual. The moment I remember longtime ago I had wit an ant, in the park.

I think you mean 'with' an ant?....you were in the park..it was free yeah?

A rhyme for you:
Haha
excuse my dyslexia

Yes it was an experience of freedom, a recognition. I felt it was mutual, even though it sounds so farfetched.

but some of the clip from her teachings of preforming art is striking. One is head part, the Chinese woman.

I am intrigued!!

Real Meaning...I have limited access to the internet for now but wanted to thank you for the link you provided....just had to glance real quickly at it and...maybe I missed the chinese lady but...the lady who took her dress off I did notice...well only for a second and then she was surrounded by heavies..seems like they didn't want to be upstaged by her performing her own idea of art....Marina..the 'star's' eyes were closed so...what's the big deal...???

Honestly...from viewing most of the link you have kindly provided...I really see this now as some sort of...well...you know those weird religions that get hyped up then go...sort of a flash in the pan thing...sorry folks...this is not art IMO..it seems like a con...only the selected few were allowed in...what was the price again???

It is a long clip. it is in university she is teaching the body parts. it is in black and white. my youTube account is lost I can not find that clip now.
the other is the snake walking on her body , another clip. it is very expressive observation.