”The idea of this is to do everything one action at a time, and nothing else.” New York-based Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović demonstrates how a glass of water should be experienced: ”Water is something we drink every day, but not consciously. Think of nothing but the moment of drinking.”

Marina Abramović (b. 1946) became world famous after her retrospective ‘The Artist is Present’ at MoMA in 2010, which was followed by a documentary film premiering in 2013. Abramović began her career in the early 1970s and has recently begun to describe herself as the ’grandmother of performance art’. Abramović’s work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body and the possibilities of the mind. To Ambramović the purpose of art is the transformation of the artist and of the viewer.

Marina Abramović was interviewed by Christian Lund in New York in September 2013.

Camera: René Johansen
Edited by: Kamilla Bruus
Produced by: Christian Lund
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2013

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