A major London exhibition of the work of Marina Abramović, “the grandmother of performance art,” forces visitors to make a stark choice.
, in an Italian art gallery in 1977, the police arrived and shut the performance down on the grounds of obscenity. Theartist and her partner, Ulay, stood opposite each other naked at the gallery’s entrance, close enough that visitors were required to squeeze between their nude bodies to enter. The planned six-hour performance was forced to end after just three.
That medium, it turns out, is prolonged discomfort, pushing the physical limits of her body in the service of a perceived higher ideal. In the process, she’s become something like the thinking man’s: a performer prepared to undergo lengthy feats of agony for an audience who can’t look away. But while Blaine enjoyed a primetime audience as he nearly drowned on the
The following year, she met the German artist Ulay for the first time. Ulay shared a birthday—30 November—with Abramović, as well as an apparent appreciation for her-like sensibility. At the RA, the bitter fruits of their collaboration are on display: unsettling images show them screaming in each other’s faces, trading slaps, and taking part in one performance which involved Ulay using a needle and thread to sew his own lips shut.
When it came my turn to go through, I was forced to contemplate the same “question of etiquette” posed byas he rises from his airplane seat next to Ed Norton: “As I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch?” Only in this instance, the essential horror is that the performers are going to have to get the assChoosing which person to face as you brush past them—and why you make that choice, and not the other—is, I think, The Point.
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