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Abramović, Marina
Krinzinger, Friedrich
Performance: Thomas Lips
1976
| Object description | 4 Color photographs |
|---|---|
| Object category | sculpture |
| Dimensions |
Rahmenmaß:
height: 80,3 cm,
width: 52,8 cm,
depth: 3 cm,
height: 63,8 cm,
width: 52,5 cm,
depth: 3 cm,
height: 79,9 cm,
width: 52,6 cm,
depth: 3 cm,
height: 80,8 cm,
width: 52,6 cm,
depth: 3 cm
Objektmaß:
height: 61 cm,
width: 51 cm,
height: 78 cm,
width: 50,5 cm
|
| Year of acquisition | 1979 |
| Inventory number | G 232/0 |
| Creditline | mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Schenkung Galerie Krinzinger Innsbruck |
| Rights reference | Bildrecht, Wien | Krinzinger, Friedrich |
| Further information about the person | Abramović, Marina [GND] | Abramović, Marina [ULAN] |
| Literature | Porträts. Aus der Sammlung |
This performance first took place in October 1975 at the Galerie Krinzinger in Innsbruck. Since then it has been performed several times, most recently in 2005 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, where it lasted for seven hours. Making reference to Christian and pagan symbolism, Abramovi? carries out several acts that push both her and the audience to their limits. A table with a white tablecloth on the stage has a glass of honey, a wine bottle, a crystal glass, a silver spoon, and a whip on it. A chair is set in front of them. A small photograph of Thomas Lips hangs on the wall, a man in whom the artist desired at the time. On the floor is a cross made of blocks of ice with a space heater suspended above it. Naked, Abramovi? goes onto the stage and first eats a kilogram of honey, then drinks a liter of wine, and breaks the glass with her hand, causing it to bleed. She paints a pentagram over the photo of the man on the wall. Then, kneeling in front of the audience, she carves the same shape into the skin around her stomach using a razor blade. In line with Christian penance rituals she whips herself and then lies down on the cross of ice blocks, with her bleeding stomach under the space heater. She had planned to lie down as long as it took for the heater to melt the ice, but after about thirty minutes the performance came to an abrupt end after an interjection by a concerned member of the audience, and the artist was carried off the stage.
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