Since the opening of “In Her Work” at MoMa, the legendary performance artist Marina Abramović has been garnering rave reviews and inciting new ways to look at art and appreciate performance art. Most recently, Marina Abramović has been inviting any museum goer to sit face to face with her. Jezebel has complied a couple of photos in which museum goers exhibited sincere emotion and some were even brought to tears. Some well known people even took part. I only wish I could be there to sit face to face with her.

http://jezebel.com/5525616/sight-at-the-museum-celeb+spotting-with-marina-abramovi

Also check out my other postings of the performance artist.

Artist Amir Baradaran, shown in the video above, enters Marina Aramovic’s meditative space and “…[chose] to symbolically wed the icon”…”through the juxtaposition of the solemn and the celebratory.”

Two weeks ago, I had posted some articles relating to the upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York featuring the “queen” of performance art, Marina Aramovic. The exhibit features all of her work up to now as well as an interactive performance  in which a selection of artists enter her meditative space. The meditative space has been establish by her remaining motionless and silent since the debut of the exhibit and will she remain this way for the next three months.

In the video, admirer, artist Amir Baradaran joins her in performance. Here is a description of his act.

“As Amir enters the meditative space in a flowing red gown—a close facsimile to Abramovic’s deep blue robe- he adds symmetry to the scene. Out of earshot of the audience, Baradaran expresses his deep and sincere devotion to Abramovic’s  artistic legacy: “I love your bodies of work… and I would love to be wedded to this body…. do you accept this marriage, here and now?” He evokes the Shiite provision of ‘temporary marriage:’ a fixed-term, “noncommittal” relationship by which intimacy could be shared for a specific time. His request is met with silence. He then goes on to playfully describe a “national tradition” in which the woman coquettishly hesitates to respond when asked for her hand: “in my culture… they say she is out making rose water…” Baradaran ends his ceremony with a joyous dance- a whiplash shift from dialogue to dance inspired by the sensibility of Abramovic’s ‘tongue and cheek’, This is How We Kill Rats in the Balkans.“ – Amir Baradaran

Original Post: http://withtheseingredients.com/2010/03/10/art-artist-marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present/

Artist Marina Abramovic (L) performs during the 'Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present' exhibition opening night party at The Museum of Modern Art on March 9, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

“This performance retrospective traces the prolific career of Marina Abramović (Yugoslav, b. 1946) with approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen)…the exhibition includes the first live re-performances of Abramović’s works by other people ever to be undertaken in a museum setting….All performances, one of which involves viewer participation, will take place throughout the entire duration of the exhibition, starting before the Museum opens each day and continuing until after it closes, to allow visitors to experience the timelessness of the works.”    – Organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Chief Curator at Large, The Museum of Modern Art, and Director, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.

Q&A with Performance Artist Marina Abramovic in New York Magazine

Also, I came across a slide show in which she opened up her homes to The New York Times. Her modern eye inspires me. Click here to check it out.