Performance art can be anything that involves the following: 1) Time 2) Space 3) Performance Body 4) a relationship between the audience and the performer. Marina Abramovic does a great job at touching all these categories in her work. I have two favorites – Rest Energy and Imponderabilia. Rest energy shows a women who is about to get shot straight in the face by a man holding a bow and arrow. This makes the individual experiencing the exhibit very uncomfortable. But making the individual uncomfortable is the exact point the artist is trying to make! Imponderabilia shows a woman trying to squeeze through a tight space between a naked man and woman. If this doesn’t make a person feel awkward, then I don’t know what would. But that’s the point of the performance art! Experiencing a gallery like that gets the blood going. Marina Abramovic’s work is an offshoot of abstract expressionism with no limitation in terms of human duress. Performance art is intended to express the human condition.
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