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Deposition, Decomposition. Losing the Body Sublime: Marina Abramović between Performance and Performativity
Capasso, Angelo
2015
Abstract
Marina Abramović is the artist par excellence whose work can be identified with Performance Art. Abramović began performing in the heyday of Performance Art, the seventies. She continued performing during the crisis years of performance art in the eighties, then brought new ideas to it when it resurfaced internationally at the beginning of the nineties in different forms.
Starting from her first Museum retrospective at MoMA The Artist is Present (2010), and the institution of the The Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art, my essay investigates the complex changes that Marina Abramović’s work underwent in relation to the issues of “performing” and “performativity” and the role that Photography played in those transformations.
Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Angelo Capasso "Deposition, Decomposition. Losing the Body Sublime: Marina Abramović between Performance and Performativity" in: Leonardo Buonomo and Elisabetta Vezzosi (edited by) "Discourses of Emancipation and the Boundaries of Freedom. Selected Papers from the 22nd AISNA Biennial International Conference", EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2015, pp.47-59
Languages
en
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