Tag: Marina Abramovic
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Elaine Shemilt – interview
An artist and researcher, Elaine Shemilt is known for her pioneering work in feminist video in the 1970s. She talks about growing up during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, using her own body in her videos and why she sees…
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Marina Abramović takes over London
‘Four months ago I was in a coma… if I’d died, I’d be the only dead female artist in 250 years showing at the Royal Academy!’
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Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals
Marina Abramović’s new duo of exhibitions in Oxford ought, most aptly, to be titled The Artist is Absent – and this beginners’ guide to sensory modulation is fairly void of impact
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Chechu Álava – interview: ‘We painters are like relay runners who pass the baton to each other to continue the race’
Álava explains how her passion for art history and her interest in gender issues blend together in her work, how she honours the memory of previously forgotten women by presenting them with love and, by doing so, hopes to provide…
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Marina Abramović: Seven Deaths
Abramović channels her passion for Maria Callas into a film in which she reinterprets seven death scenes from famous operas, and seven unusual alabaster sculptures. She explains how the Greek opera singer’s life has fuelled her art
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Michael Landy – interview: ‘The projects no longer exist, but they are mapped on to the Australian psyche’
The sociologically inclined Landy is creating an exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of the Kaldor Public Art Projects. He discusses the challenges of reviving archival ghosts, his enduring fascination with artistic failures, and Kaldor’s doggedness in realising his ambitious scheme
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Chiharu Shiota: Beyond Time
Using 2,000 balls of thread, Chiharu Shiota’s installation of white woollen webbing in the chapel at Yorkshire Sculpture Park drifts up from floor to ceiling, twisting around and drawing you in to the spirit of the place
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Maria Alyokhina: ‘The government media calls us enemies of the people … but I haven’t met anyone on the street who hates us’
Political activist and Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina talks to Studio International at the Saatchi Gallery about fighting government propaganda and the support the group receives from fellow artists
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İ Ata Doğruel: ‘I want to destroy the limits between life and art’
Pushing his physical and mental boundaries to the limit, Doğruel seeks to make performances from his life and to use the medium of performance art as a tool to enhance his spirituality and find a broader sense of life
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Performance, Audience, Mirror
Celebrating moving image from the 1960s to the present day, this exhibition explores experimentation, performance and documentation in film-making
