Walk Through Walls
Becoming Marina Abramovic. A Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
Perhaps the most famous performance artist in the world, Marina Abramovic (nicknamed "The Grandmother of Performance Art") has led a unique, artistically groundbreaking, passion-filled life. In her first ever memoir, she examines her life through the...
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Perhaps the most famous performance artist in the world, Marina Abramovic (nicknamed "The Grandmother of Performance Art") has led a unique, artistically groundbreaking, passion-filled life. In her first ever memoir, she examines her life through the powerful lens of the human spirit's ability to overcome fear and pain.
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"I had experienced absolute freedom-I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn't matter, that nothing mattered at all-and it intoxicated me."In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramovic's MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than 700 hours. This celebration of nearly fifty years of groundbreaking performance art demonstrated once again that Marina Abramovic is truly a force of nature.
The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, she was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, Marina lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor-all of which informs her art and her life. The beating heart of Walk Through Walls is an operatic love story-a twelve-year collaboration with fellow performance artist Ulay, much of which was spent penniless in a van traveling across Europe-a relationship that began to unravel and came to a dramatic end atop the Great Wall of China.
Marina's story, by turns moving, epic, and dryly funny, informs an incomparable artistic career that involves pushing her body past the limits of fear, pain, exhaustion, and danger in an uncompromising quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. A remarkable work of performance in its own right, Walk Through Walls is a vivid and powerful rendering of the unparalleled life of an extraordinary artist.
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1.I was walking into the forest with my grandmother one morning. It was so beautiful and peaceful. I was only four years old, a tiny little one. And I saw something very strange a straight line across the road. I was so curious that I went over to it; I just wanted to touch it. Then my grandmother screamed, so loud. I remember it so strongly. It was a huge snake.
That was the first moment in my life that I really felt fear but I had no idea what I should be afraid of. Actually, it was my grandmother s voice that frightened me. And then the snake slithered away, fast.
It is incredible how fear is built into you, by your parents and others surrounding you. You re so innocent in the beginning; you don t know.
I come from a dark place. Postwar Yugoslavia, the mid-1940s to the mid- 70s. A Communist dictatorship, Marshal Tito in charge. Perpetual shortages of everything, drabness everywhere. There is something about Communism and socialism it s a kind of aesthetic based on pure ugliness. The Belgrade of my childhood didn t even have the monumentalism of Red Square in Moscow. Everything was somehow secondhand. As though the leaders had looked through the lens of someone else s Communism and built something less good and less functional and more fucked-up.
I always remember the communal spaces they would be painted this dirty green color, and there were these naked bulbs that gave off a gray light that kind of shadowed the eyes. The combination of the light and the color of the walls made everyone s skin yellowish-greenish, like they were liver-sick. Whatever you did, there would be a feeling of oppression, and a little bit of depression.
Whole families lived in these massive, ugly apartment blocks. Young people could never get an apartment for themselves, so every flat would contain several generations the grandmother and grandfather, the newlywed couple, and then their children. It created unavoidable complications, all these families jammed
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into very small places. The young couples had to go to the park or the cinema to have sex. And forget about ever trying to buy anything new or nice.
A joke from Communist times: A guy retires, and for having been such an exceptional worker, he is awarded, instead of a watch, a new car, and they tell him at the office he s very lucky he ll get his car on such and such a date, in twenty years.
Morning or afternoon? the guy asks.
What do you care? the official asks him.
I have the plumber coming the same day, the guy says.
My family didn t have to endure all this. My parents were war heroes they fought against the Nazis with the Yugoslav partisans, Communists led by Tito and so after the war they became important members of the Party, with important jobs. My father was appointed to Marshal Tito s elite guard; my mother directed an institute that supervised historic monuments and acquired artwork for public buildings. She was also the director of the Museum of Art and Revolution. Because of this, we had many privileges. We lived in a big apartment in the center of Belgrade Makedonska Street, number 32. A large, old-fashioned 1920s building, with elegant ironwork and glass, like an apartment building in Paris. We had a whole floor, eight rooms for four people my parents, my younger brother, and me which was unheard of in those days. Four bedrooms, a dining room, a huge salon (our name for the living room), a kitchen, two bathrooms, and a maid s room. The salon had shelves full of books, a black grand piano, and paintings all over the walls. Because my mother was the director of the Museum of the Revolution, she could go to painters studios and buy the
A joke from Communist times: A guy retires, and for having been such an exceptional worker, he is awarded, instead of a watch, a new car, and they tell him at the office he s very lucky he ll get his car on such and such a date, in twenty years.
Morning or afternoon? the guy asks.
What do you care? the official asks him.
I have the plumber coming the same day, the guy says.
My family didn t have to endure all this. My parents were war heroes they fought against the Nazis with the Yugoslav partisans, Communists led by Tito and so after the war they became important members of the Party, with important jobs. My father was appointed to Marshal Tito s elite guard; my mother directed an institute that supervised historic monuments and acquired artwork for public buildings. She was also the director of the Museum of Art and Revolution. Because of this, we had many privileges. We lived in a big apartment in the center of Belgrade Makedonska Street, number 32. A large, old-fashioned 1920s building, with elegant ironwork and glass, like an apartment building in Paris. We had a whole floor, eight rooms for four people my parents, my younger brother, and me which was unheard of in those days. Four bedrooms, a dining room, a huge salon (our name for the living room), a kitchen, two bathrooms, and a maid s room. The salon had shelves full of books, a black grand piano, and paintings all over the walls. Because my mother was the director of the Museum of the Revolution, she could go to painters studios and buy the
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Autoren-Porträt von Marina Abramovic
Raised in Yugoslavia, legendary performance artist Marina Abramovic now makes her primary residence in New York and in the Hudson Valley.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Marina Abramovic
- 2016, 384 Seiten, 100 Schwarz-Weiss-Abbildungen, Masse: 16,4 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Crown Archetype
- ISBN-10: 1101905042
- ISBN-13: 9781101905043
- Erscheinungsdatum: 12.10.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"Candidly and vividly sharing her personal struggles as well as her artistic and spiritual discoveries, Abramovic presents a uniquely intense and affecting art memoir." Booklist, starred reviewEnchanting and emotionally raw, Walk Through Walls is an honest, gripping, and profound look into the heart and brilliant mind of one of the quintessential artists of the postmodern era.
Publishers Weekly, starred review
Marina has lived like an unstoppable force of nature, with the kind of power that leaves me feeling breathless and disquieted while at the same time profoundly impressed, awed, and inspired. As I turn the pages of her book, I hear her voice in my head, as if she were actually narrating the words. When Marina speaks, it sounds as if you re listening to a legendary folktale from the ancient landscapes of the Balkan Mountains. Her voice is soothing, calm, and centered. It belies the trauma, fear, and darkness coiled at the root of her impulse to express and expunge. Annie Lennox, Vanity Fair
In her new memoir, Walk Through Walls, [Marina Abramovi ] exposes herself as provocatively and fearlessly in language as she has done for many years in her largely nonverbal performance art. Her page-turner of a narrative [is] at times shocking genuinely moving, and always coruscatingly honest. Elle
Walk Through Walls gives the impression that the phrase real talk may have been coined solely for its author Marina Abramovi . The provocative performance artist pulls no punches looking back over her rough childhood and prolific public career. But it s not all dark recollections. There s plenty of wry wit in her memoir as well, as she reveals insights into her various projects and processes. BUST
Walk Through Walls testifies to larger struggles than those of a young, visionary performance artist in an object-oriented art world It is hard not to read Abramovi s work as an unconscious
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enactment of upending patriarchal norms. Los Angeles Review of Books
Abramovi may be the only superstar performance artist in the world at the moment, and the book itself has the veneer of an ambitious performance piece, as Abramovi exposes her deepest personal wounds and places them next to her artistic triumphs, in order to create a kind of epic mythology around her work. The author turns blank pages into a museum of the self, cutting herself open for the sake of the narrative. But in Abramovi s case, the performance feels even more extreme. She has actually bled for her life story, onto pristine gallery floors .This Marina is the most charming one, the voice that makes Walk Through Walls propulsively readable. New Republic
"[Walk Through Walls] is really close to what it s like to spend a weekend with her: Abramovic is funny, generous, and vituperative, a raconteur and comedian and the sometimes sad-sack hero of the epic tale of her mad life." New York Magazine
Marina s role as an artist, she believes, with a hubris that can sound naïve and a humility that disarms any impulse to resent it, is to lead her spectators through an anxious passage to a place of release from whatever has confined them. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker
Abramovi s story is thoroughly detailed, with brutally honest descriptions of her life and performance pieces, all providing deep insights into her work .an informative, eye-opening look at the larger world of art. Library Journal
"The memoir s most powerful moments come when Abramovi shares the most intimate details of the romantic heartaches she s endured. Marina pulls no punches about the men she s loved and the artist feels feels more present than ever." Smithsonian Magazine
Walk Through Walls reads as a frank and straightforward retelling of a life story Where is the dividing line that separates life and art? That question, and tension, make this an electrifying read. BookPage
"...There is something intensely enthralling about Abramovi s simple, matter-of-factly candor in surveying, without belaboring, the traumatic formative experiences despite which and, to a large extent, because of which she became the person and artist she is." Brainpickings
"An entertaining page-turner dotted with juicy details . . . teems with that wonderfully jumbled, delightful, complicated mix of art and life. The Daily Beast
"Walk Through Walls is...as enthralling and powerful as [Marina's] career and work." Riveter's
"[Walk Through Walls is] rawly intimate and weirdly mesmeric...quietly revelatory." The Observer (UK)
Walk Through Walls is the story of a relentlessly independent artist thwarted in her quest for total connection with one person who eventually achieves it with thousands. Marina s magic derives from an emerging method that involves tests of endurance and deprivation more commonly associated with Navy Seal training than with the world of modern art. Just as her performances are impossible to turn away from, I could not put down this book.
Tom Reiss, Pulitzer and PEN award-winning author of The Black Count and The Orientalist
Marina Abramovi is famous for fiercely throwing herself, body and soul, into transformation through her art. In this intimate memoir, I hear her voice as I read. She confesses, confides, complains, instructs, and reflects with intelligence and humor on her difficult but ultimately magical life and liberating work. Willem Dafoe
Abramovi is the most celebrated performance/conceptual artist in the world, and she s probably the only one with a sense of humor. Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times UK
Walk Through Walls is beautiful, panoramic, touching, deep. I really love and admire the way Marina confronts all the weird contradictions of myth mixing with daily life. She manages to say personal as well as self-critical things about herself while still making a self-portrait that is rich and full of real self-respect. What a life! Laurie Anderson
In The Heart Sutra, Buddha says, Our life on earth is like a morning star, a bubble on water, a drop of dew, lightning in the summer sky, a dream in this floating world. For Marina Abramovi , there is no difference between art and life, life is a dream while it lasts, an absolute presence made in a vacuum. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Abramovi may be the only superstar performance artist in the world at the moment, and the book itself has the veneer of an ambitious performance piece, as Abramovi exposes her deepest personal wounds and places them next to her artistic triumphs, in order to create a kind of epic mythology around her work. The author turns blank pages into a museum of the self, cutting herself open for the sake of the narrative. But in Abramovi s case, the performance feels even more extreme. She has actually bled for her life story, onto pristine gallery floors .This Marina is the most charming one, the voice that makes Walk Through Walls propulsively readable. New Republic
"[Walk Through Walls] is really close to what it s like to spend a weekend with her: Abramovic is funny, generous, and vituperative, a raconteur and comedian and the sometimes sad-sack hero of the epic tale of her mad life." New York Magazine
Marina s role as an artist, she believes, with a hubris that can sound naïve and a humility that disarms any impulse to resent it, is to lead her spectators through an anxious passage to a place of release from whatever has confined them. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker
Abramovi s story is thoroughly detailed, with brutally honest descriptions of her life and performance pieces, all providing deep insights into her work .an informative, eye-opening look at the larger world of art. Library Journal
"The memoir s most powerful moments come when Abramovi shares the most intimate details of the romantic heartaches she s endured. Marina pulls no punches about the men she s loved and the artist feels feels more present than ever." Smithsonian Magazine
Walk Through Walls reads as a frank and straightforward retelling of a life story Where is the dividing line that separates life and art? That question, and tension, make this an electrifying read. BookPage
"...There is something intensely enthralling about Abramovi s simple, matter-of-factly candor in surveying, without belaboring, the traumatic formative experiences despite which and, to a large extent, because of which she became the person and artist she is." Brainpickings
"An entertaining page-turner dotted with juicy details . . . teems with that wonderfully jumbled, delightful, complicated mix of art and life. The Daily Beast
"Walk Through Walls is...as enthralling and powerful as [Marina's] career and work." Riveter's
"[Walk Through Walls is] rawly intimate and weirdly mesmeric...quietly revelatory." The Observer (UK)
Walk Through Walls is the story of a relentlessly independent artist thwarted in her quest for total connection with one person who eventually achieves it with thousands. Marina s magic derives from an emerging method that involves tests of endurance and deprivation more commonly associated with Navy Seal training than with the world of modern art. Just as her performances are impossible to turn away from, I could not put down this book.
Tom Reiss, Pulitzer and PEN award-winning author of The Black Count and The Orientalist
Marina Abramovi is famous for fiercely throwing herself, body and soul, into transformation through her art. In this intimate memoir, I hear her voice as I read. She confesses, confides, complains, instructs, and reflects with intelligence and humor on her difficult but ultimately magical life and liberating work. Willem Dafoe
Abramovi is the most celebrated performance/conceptual artist in the world, and she s probably the only one with a sense of humor. Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times UK
Walk Through Walls is beautiful, panoramic, touching, deep. I really love and admire the way Marina confronts all the weird contradictions of myth mixing with daily life. She manages to say personal as well as self-critical things about herself while still making a self-portrait that is rich and full of real self-respect. What a life! Laurie Anderson
In The Heart Sutra, Buddha says, Our life on earth is like a morning star, a bubble on water, a drop of dew, lightning in the summer sky, a dream in this floating world. For Marina Abramovi , there is no difference between art and life, life is a dream while it lasts, an absolute presence made in a vacuum. Alejandro Jodorowsky
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