An artist we discussed today was Marina Abramovic who was a New York based Serbian performance artist. She began her career in this field in the early 1970s. Although Marina is from Serbia she still holds a Montenegrin passport, which in turn makes her describe herself as the grandmother of performance art. Marina has a unique way of creating her art she explores the relationship between performer and audience and the limits of their body and mind. Abramovic learned her skills as a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade. She finished her postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine arts in Croatia. Marina taught at the Academy of Fine Arts at Novi Sad from 1973 to 1975 where she created her first solo performance.
" Rhythm 10"
Marine first performance was her rhythm 10 which she explored the elements of both ritual and gesture. In this performance Abramovic used twenty knives and two tape recorders, and played the Russian game where she aimed between each of her fingers. Each time she cut herself she would pick up a new knife from the row of twenty she had set up and would try again all this was on film. After she had cut herself she watched the tape and would try to repeat every movement and create the same mistakes. She would try mixing the past with the present. Marine wanted to explore the physical and mental limitations and the pain her body could take. She found out that when a performer is on camera that they would push their body farther then they could ever do before.
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