Marina Abramović: An art made of trust, vulnerability and connection
מרינה אברמוביץ': אמנות שעשויה מאמון, פגיעות, וקשר
In her performances she’s been cut, burned, and nearly shot -- but Marina Abramović's boldest work yet is a gargantuan institute dedicated to transformation through art. Full bio
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the razor blade, the hammer
even killing me.
performance was easy.
the glass of water to drink,
and cut my clothes,
and stuck them in my stomach.
and cut my neck and drank the blood,
וחתך את צווארי ושתה את הדם,
because it was just a normal opening,
כי זו היתה פתיחה רגילה,
and put me on the table,
and put it against my temple.
ושם כנגד הרקה שלי.
and they started a fight.
and tears were running down my face.
מלאה דם ודמעות זלגו על פני.
with myself as a normal human being.
it was at two in the morning.
what the performance is.
so many different explanations,
for performance is very simple.
and physical construction
in a specific time
make the piece together.
performance and theater is huge.
the blood is the material,
in the real time,
of these types of things twice -- ever.
הרבה מהדברים האלו פעמיים - לעולם.
the performance is --
are always afraid of very simple things.
מפחדים מדברים מאד פשוטים.
we're afraid of pain,
in front of the audience.
and push my body as far as I can.
את הגוף שלי הכי רחוק שאני מסוגלת.
from these fears.
you can do it for you.
אתם יכולים לעשות זאת לכם.
I actually fell in love with.
performances together.
and the pistols and the bullets,
you have to trust the person completely
עליך לבטוח בבן אדם לגמרי
is pointing to my heart.
is rushing and so on,
to another human being.
both male and female energy.
אנרגיה גברית ונשית.
comes to an end, ours went too.
like normal human beings do
of China to say goodbye.
and he started from the Gobi Desert.
והוא התחיל במדבר הגובי.
the 12 Chinese provinces,
ללכת דרך 12 פרובינציות סיניות,
how I see the public.
את איך שאני רואה את הציבור.
I made in those days
some very strong, charismatic image,
for any war at any time,
but there's always some war, somewhere.
אבל תמיד יש מלחמה באיזה שהוא מקום.
dead, big, bloody cow bones.
של פרה מתה גדולה ומדממת.
you never can wash shame off the wars.
אינך יכול לעולם לרחוץ את חרפת המלחמות.
and wars are coming off these bones,
והמלחמות נשטפות מהעצמות,
an unbearable smell.
who really changed my life,
את האחד שבאמת שינה את חיי,
which I just recently made.
when I said to the curator,
an empty chair at the front,
can come and sit as long as they want."
this is New York,
when the museum is open 10 hours,
כשהמוזיאון פתוח עשר שעות,
and I'm still sitting,
maybe 10 or 15 years ago --
experience something different,
they would come and sit in front of me,
הם היו באים ויושבים מולי,
for hours and hours and hours
they're filmed by the camera,
except in themselves.
when you look in somebody else's eyes,
כשאתה מסתכל למישהו בעיניים,
with that total stranger,
everything happened.
from that chair after three months,
that I have a very strong mission,
of immaterial performing arts.
the next day it's there.
ופעם הבאה הוא עדיין שם.
you only have the memory,
if you talk about immaterial art,
אם מדברים על אומנות על-חומרית,
absolutely highest art of all,
and then everything else.
in Hudson, upstate New York,
with Rem Koolhaas, an idea.
you have to give me your time.
עליכם לתת לי את זמנכם.
before you enter the building,
לפני שאתם נכנסים לבנין,
a full six hours,
word of honor and you leave before --
את המילה של עצמכם ואתם עוזבים לפני --
you get a certificate of accomplishment,
you have to do is dress in lab coats.
הוא ללבוש חלוקי מעבדה.
just a viewer into experimenter.
your iPhone, your iPod, your computer
for yourself for the first time.
wrong with technology,
we have for ourselves.
to actually give you back this time.
you start slowing down.
תתחילו להאיט את הקצב.
to learn how to drink water --
אתם הולכים ללמוד איך לשתות מים--
for maybe half an hour.
the magnet chamber,
some magnet streams on your body.
you go to crystal chamber.
you go to eye-gazing chamber,
תלכו לחדר התבוננות בעיניים.
a chamber where you are lying down.
תלכו לחדר בו תשכבו.
of the human body,
mentally and physically,
something with a long duration,
it can be a theater piece,
זה יכול להיות אופרה, זה יכול להיות תאטרון,
זה יכול להיות ריקוד וידאו.
because now you are comfortable.
של טווי ארוך כי עכשיו נח לכם.
where you're going to see the work.
because it's been a long day,
transported to the parking lot.
for a certain amount of time,
you just, you know, go back,
making my institute in Brazil,
to Canada and everywhere.
a kind of simple method,
in your own life.
you can make life, too.
אתם יכולים ליצור גם חיים.
of being bored, being angry,
the amount of rice you're counting.
את כמות האורז שאתם סופרים.
amount of peace you get
that you don't hear anything,
together without sound,
just the simple silence.
we like in our life.
שאנחנו אוהבים בחיינו.
if you always do things the same way.
עושים דברים באותה הדרך.
I'm afraid of, the things I fear,
שאני מפחדת מהם,
that nobody's ever been.
if you experiment, you can fail.
אם תערכו נסיונות, תוכלו להכשל.
and you don't fail,
over and over again.
right now need a change,
is a personal level change.
הוא השינוי במישור האישי.
to change consciousness
how it's different,
and they're not right,
and there's hunger in the world
to this whole thing?
the one you don't know,
זה שאינכם מכירים,
in their eyes, right now?
ממש עכשיו?
of your time, that's so little.
don't be self-conscious.
על תהיו מודעים לעצמכם.
stranger in your eyes, in his eyes.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Marina Abramović - Performance artistIn her performances she’s been cut, burned, and nearly shot -- but Marina Abramović's boldest work yet is a gargantuan institute dedicated to transformation through art.
Why you should listen
Marina Abramović burst onto the '70s art scene with cathartic performances that tested the limits of spectator participation and personal safety. The Artist Is Present, a Museum of Modern Art performance in which thousands of viewers queued for hours to face Abramović across a table, moved many to tears, and launched Abramović into mainstream celebrity.
Her latest work-in-progress is the MAI (Marina Abramović Institute), a sprawling upstate New York complex devoted to the preservation of durational performance pieces, arts education and the pursuit of heightened consciousness through Abramović’s artistic practices.
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