“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 Abramović’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 Abramović 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.
I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
評分I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
評分##純粹的真誠是最反叛的。會一直留在生命裏的教母。
評分I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
評分##純粹的真誠是最反叛的。會一直留在生命裏的教母。
評分##剛好看完。一段行為藝術史上無法復製的經典。這兩個人,他們身上那種動物性的直接和純粹,讓人著迷。今日之後,MoMA那場相遇和短暫的執手對視將成為經典。Rest in peace dear Ulay.
評分##It's all about accurate intuition and transcendental experience.
評分I knew next to nothing about her before i read this book, now i adore her, though it's a one-sided story. At times, i forgot she's human, especially in the piece "The Artist is Present", she was releasing people's pain, almost as if she was Green Tara like when she imagined herself to be in the Tushita monastery.
評分##幾乎一口氣讀完,魔幻而真實,勇敢的剖白,她的人生,她的藝術,她的兩個(渣)男人。她所穿過的牆,我想並不隻是生理和心理的疼痛(颱譯為《疼痛是一道我穿越瞭的牆》),也有突破邊界的意思,藝術與生活,藝術傢與觀眾,靈與肉,人與萬物,最後落腳到everything is life,是真的體悟瞭。前三分之二力道十足,後三分之一過於神秘主義。
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