Carrying the Skeleton

2008 · Photograph

Peut-on la contempler ?

Elle ne reçoit pas en ce moment

New York, États-Unis

Elle appartient à la collection, mais n’est pas présentée en ce moment.

2006–2008
Film: “Balkan Erotic Epic” and “Dangerous Games”
In 2006 she directed the short “Balkan Erotic Epic” for Destricted, a compilation of erotic films, and in 2008 “Dangerous Games” for the film project “Stories on Human Rights”.
2007
Founds the Marina Abramović Institute
She founded the Marina Abramović Institute (MAI), a non-profit foundation for performance art focused on durational work and the “Abramović Method”; in 2007 she bought for it a building of 1933 in Hudson, New York, formerly a theatre and community tennis centre.
2008 · Distinction
Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
2009–2012
Friendship with James Franco
In 2009 the actor James Franco interviewed her for The Wall Street Journal; in 2010 he visited her during “The Artist Is Present”, and in 2012 the two attended the Met Gala together.
2010
Ulay arrives at the opening — and she weeps
On the day the show opened Ulay made a surprise appearance in the atrium and sat opposite her; she could not hold back her tears and reached out to him across the table — a video of the moment went viral.
14 March – 31 May 2010
MoMA retrospective: “The Artist Is Present”
It was her first retrospective and the largest exhibition of performance art in MoMA’s history (curated by Klaus Biesenbach); in the atrium she sat motionless for 736½ hours while visitors took turns sitting opposite her — about fifteen hundred people who held her gaze.