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Marina Abramović
Memoir & Personal Growth
Serbian conceptual and performance artist known for endurance and body art, exploring performer–audience relationships and the physical and mental limits of the body.
Biography
Marina Abramović (born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist whose work investigates body art, endurance art, the relationship between performer and audience, and the limits of the body and mind. Active for over four decades, she has been described by the Evening Standard as "perhaps the single most important figure in performance art," and Aesthetica has noted her work has "reshaped the very language of contemporary performance art." Abramović calls herself the "grandmother of performance art" and is known for bringing audience participation into her practice and for confronting pain, blood, and physical limits.
Her memoir recounts an upbringing in postwar Yugoslavia as the child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito, raised with a relentless work ethic and a strict household marked by her mother’s control and a 10 p.m. curfew. The book links her insatiable curiosity, desire to connect with people, and Balkan sense of humor to the development of her art. In 2007 she founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art.
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Books by Marina Abramović
Walk through walls
Walk Through Walls is Abramović’s memoir describing her childhood in postwar Yugoslavia, the strict, controlled household of her war-hero parents under Tito, and how those experiences shaped her life and art.