“I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.”
- What are you doing? I am reading articles about Marina Abramović, so as to sufficiently whet my appetite for Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present. If you are relatively unfamiliar with Marina Abramović and her career, as I embarrassingly was, this New Yorker profile by the incomparable Judith Thurman is an excellent primer on all things Abramović and you should maybe read it.

“I have always staged my fears as a way to transcend them.”

- What are you doing? I am reading articles about Marina Abramović, so as to sufficiently whet my appetite for Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present. If you are relatively unfamiliar with Marina Abramović and her career, as I embarrassingly was, this New Yorker profile by the incomparable Judith Thurman is an excellent primer on all things Abramović and you should maybe read it.

Notes (17)
  1. lovablefungus reblogged this from speaklifeintomylungs and added:
    This was the best day at MOMA.
  2. danpasta reblogged this from lizdexia and added:
    I went to this when it was at the MoMA and it was insane. All she did was sit in that chair from opening to close and...
  3. farfromthepacific said: I was in the moma when this was going on and I assumed it was a freak show. Totes regret not watching it from the ground. I was too concerned with the naked people they had upstairs and let people walk against.
  4. speaklifeintomylungs reblogged this from terzig and added:
    dude me too. me and my friends were like ……… but it was cool. all of her stuff is so weird but in a really interesting...
  5. juliaperchance reblogged this from amyohconnor
  6. thesocialcommentator reblogged this from amyohconnor
  7. lizdexia reblogged this from amyohconnor and added:
    I went down a similar Abramović internet spiral a few months ago and reading about some of her past shows/pieces totally...
  8. terzig reblogged this from amyohconnor and added:
    I was here for this and so utterly confused at what was happening
  9. amyohconnor posted this

Amy O'Connor - Godmother of Hip-Hop. 20/Dublin.

#LOL- Official Tumblr Tag (Editor)

#Television - Official Tumblr Tag (Editor)

Send marriage proposals to amyfairycakes [at] gmail [dot] com.

http://twitter.com/amyohconnor