Marco del Fiol: We started shooting at the end of 2012. Another gripping scene, but less extreme, is when she struggles to break an egg with her two bare hands.Īt the London Film Festival 200% spoke with Del Fiol on Abramovic’s spiritual quest.Ģ00%: How much time did you spend with Marina making the documentary? In a voice-over Abramovic describes the purgative effects of Ayahuasca resulting in uncontrollable vomiting, urinating and diarrhoea. In one shamanistic ceremony she nearly loses control over herself when she drinks Ayahuasca, an entheogenic brew used as a traditional spiritual medicine. The documentary has some arresting scenes. She reveals that she had two big loves in her life and the second one really broke her heart. Now, in this documentary, she is determined to deal with emotional pain. In her performances Abramovic dealt with excruciating physical pain. Their reunion seems like a life-flashes-before-your-eyes moment where they relive all the joyful and painful episodes in their lives. They walked the Great Wall of China each from one end to meet in the middle to break up. In 1988, they ended their 12 years work and love relationship with a riviting, epic last performance: ‘The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk’. Abramovic breaks into tears when an old acquaintance takes a seat in front of her. For her MoMA retrospective, during a period of three months, Abramovic shared a moment of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. It features a moving reunion moment which has more than 25 million views on YouTube. In 2010, she became known to a wide audience with a heartbreaking scene in ‘The Artist Is Present’, a documentary on her life and work. These performances made her well known in the art world. Towards the end of the performance someone actually placed the gun to her head. On a table Abramovic placed 72 objects (including a loaded gun) and the audience was invited to use these objects to their wishes on her. In ‘Rhythm 0’, the most extreme in the series, she wanted to find out how far the public would go. In ‘Rhythm 5’ she lost consciousness when she was laying at the centre of a burning star and two audience members removed her from the flames as she nearly suffocated. In the 1970s Abramovic did a series of performances, ‘Rhythms’, that nearly cost her her life. In her search for personal healing she is as fearless as in her extreme performances. The documentary follows the Serbian Performance artist on a spiritual journey through Brazil. Indeed, Abramović’s art has frequently involved blood, bodies, nudity, pain and tension, but that doesn’t maker a demonic worshipper of dark entities it just makes her daring! “I am personally afraid that any kind of lunatic with a gun will come and shoot me, because they think I’m a Satanist,” Abramović continued in her Times interview.“I was really concerned that she was going to die”, says Marco Del Fiol, director of ‘The Space in Between: Marina Abramovic and Brazil’. Marina Abramović in 2000 with her work ‘Spirit Cooking.’ Wolfgang Weihs/picture alliance via Getty Images “I really want to ask these people, ‘Can you stop with this? Can you stop harassing me? Can’t you see that this is just the art I’ve been doing for 50 years of my life?'” “I need to open my heart,” Abramović told the New York Times in a new interview. However, she’s rarely, if ever, addressed accusations from conspiracy theorists of her loyalty to occult practices, until now. SEE ALSO: Microsoft’s ‘Mixed Reality’ Goggles Take Marina Abramović on a World TourĪbramović has spoken extensively about the tensions involved with offering up her body and femininity to the public as part of her performance art. Such profoundly Salem-flavored denouncements of Abramović’s work have followed her throughout her career, but they evidently increased exponentially when the WikiLeaks dump of John Podesta’s emails unearthed brief correspondence with Abramović in which she talked about a “Spirit Cooking” dinner at her residence that he was invited to. A Microsoft YouTube video promoting the project was subsequently down-voted en masse by detractors and conspiracy theorists, encouraged by Reddit threads and Infowars, who labeled Abramović “the queen of occult symbolism” and a “Spirit Cooking priestess.” In January, Christie’s announced an upcoming collaboration with Abramović and Microsoft that would involve Abramović ‘s work This Life being projected to audiences via “mixed reality” headsets. Ursula Düren/picture alliance via Getty Imagesīesides earning her spot as one of the world’s most famous and talented performance artists, Marina Abramović has also inadvertently become one of the most divisive public figures currently working in the arts. The performance artist Marina Abramović comes to the premiere of her film Body of Truth.
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