Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for.
Interpretation
Marina Abramovic advocates for performance art to be recognized and valued as a significant form of mainstream art.
In this quote, Marina Abramovic expresses her passionate belief that performance art should not be relegated to the margins of the art world but should instead be embraced and celebrated as a legitimate and essential art form. Her fight for this recognition reflects her commitment to challenging traditional notions of art and advocating for the transformative potential of performance in contemporary culture.
In practice
During an art exhibition, I could quote Abramovic to emphasize the significance of performance art.
All the aggressive actions I do to myself I would never dream of doing in my own life - I am not this kind of person. I cry if I cut myself peeling potatoes. I am taking the plane, there is turbulence, I am shaking. In performance, I become, somehow, like not a mortal.
I hate studio. For me, studio is a trap to overproduce and repeat yourself. It is a habit that leads to art pollution.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.
Theatre is fake... The knife is not real, the blood is not real, and the emotions are not real. Performance is just the opposite: the knife is real, the blood is real, and the emotions are real.
I want people to come to me open and vulnerable. When they come to the gallery, they have to leave their watches, their computers, their Blackberrys, iPads, iPhones, because we are so incredibly used to technology, and I wanted to remove that.
Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
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