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Marina Abramovic is a New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over four decades, her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.

Abramovic was awarded the Golden Lion for Best Artist at the 1997 Venice Biennale. In 2008, she was decorated with the Austrian Commander Cross for her contribution to art history.

In 2010, Abramovic had her first major U.S. retrospective and simultaneously performed for 716 hours in “The Artist is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. During this performance, Abramovic engaged in mutual gaze with more than one thousand strangers over the course of three months. Over 750,000 visitors came to see “The Artist Is Present” and Abramovic was inspired by the general public’s desire to engage with immaterial works. This is when her vision of MAI was born.

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LOVE IS LOUDER is Now at Bozar

Love is Louder is now at Bozar. The event runs through  5 January 2025 at Ravenstein Circuit.
LOVE IS LOUDER Comes to Bozar Next Month

Love is Louder is coming to Bozar next month. The event runs 12 October 2024 - 5 January 2025 at Ravenstein Circuit.
El Colectivo MUXX Expresa A Través Del Performance Daddy Una Crítica A La Militarización Y Los Poderes Neocoloniales

Con el propósito de profundizar en la creciente militarización actual y la explotación de cuerpos en guerras sin sentido, el colectivo MUXX, bajo la dirección del artista multidisciplinario Eyibra (Abraham Brody), presentará el performance Daddy, el sábado 27 de julio, de las 14:00 a las 18:00 h en Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal).    
LOVE IS LOUDER Comes to Bozar in October

Love is Louder comes to Bozar this October. 80 artists look at love from the late ‘60s to today. The event runs 12 October 2024 - 5 January 2025 at Ravenstein Circuit.
Willem Dafoe Named Artistic Director of the Theatre Department of La Biennale di Venezia

Willem Dafoe has been named the new Artistic Director of the Theatre Department of La Biennale di Venezia for the two-year term 2025-2026.
Scott Guild to Embark on Tour for Book/Music Project 'Plastic'

On May 31 author and musician Scott Guild will release Plastic: The Album. The LP is the companion project to his wildly successful debut novel, Plastic which was released earlier this Spring to wide-spread critical acclaim. Together the album and book lead audiences into a surreal near-future world, peopled by plastic figurines and filled with the perils of climate crisis and a recent nuclear war. See the tour dates for the project here!
Scott Guild Shares Pensive 'Until They're Home' Ahead of Debut LP

Until They're Home, delves into grief and aims to make sense of the past and its impact on the future. Emerging from Guild's grief in his own life, the musician & author shares the track is, 'a song about grief, about feeling haunted by the loved ones you've lost, about wondering if you'll ever feel whole again...' Listen to the song here!
Author & Musician Scott Guild Shares New Single 'Only Killers' With Cindertalk & Stranger Cat

Musician and writer Scott Guild has shared the haunting track 'Only Killers,' a collaboration with Cindertalk & Stranger Cat out now. The song is the latest release from his forthcoming Plastic: The Album, due May 31.
Review: KAGAMI, The Roundhouse

Thanks to some nifty “mixed reality” technology from Tin Drum, Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto is brought back to some semblance of life in Kagami.
The 2024 Art Of Elysium 25th Anniversary Heaven Benefit Honors Neil Gaiman

The Art of Elysium has announced the celebration of its 25th Anniversary Heaven benefit, set to take place on the eve of the Golden Globes in Los Angeles. Esteemed storyteller Neil Gaiman has been chosen as the recipient of this year's Visionary award.
El Performance Motherlines Explora La Diversidad Del Cuerpo Virtual En El Ex Teresa Arte Actual

En el marco de los festejos por los 30 años del Ex Teresa Arte Actual, la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) presentan el performance Motherlines de los artistas multidisciplinarios Eyibra (Abraham Brody) y Óldo Erréve. 
Ida Sophia wins $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize 2023

Ida Sophia has been named the winner of the Art Gallery of South Australia’s $100,000 Ramsay Art Prize, the nation’s most generous prize for Australian artists under forty. The winning performance-based video work, Witness will be premiered in the Ramsay Art Prize 2023 exhibition.
Pvssy Riot & Boys Noize Team Up and Bring Alice Glass Along for 'Chastity'

With 'Chastity,' Pussy Riot and Alice Glass wield Boys Noize's racing techno-NRG as a weapon of mass domination. The femme-fatale vocalists take turns drenching the Berlin producer's dark adrenaline with syrupy acid – and while it's an undeniable peak-time rush, a closer listen to the lyrics reveal disturbing new details.
Acclaimed Composer Mette Henriette to Release New Album 'Drifting'

Recorded at the recently relocated Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, Drifting was completed at Studios La Buissonne with Grammy-winning producer Manfred Eicher and features pianist Johan Lindvall and cellist Judith Hamann. The 15-track record takes Mette Henriette in a bold new direction, as she connects with her deeper musical consciousness.
Performance Space New York Announces Spring 2023 Season of its HEALING SERIES

Performance Space New York has announced the Spring 2023 season of its Healing Series, the second part of its year-long reflection on the political potency of healing and the role performance plays in it, in the midst of what feels like a momentous shift in art-making to foreground modes and practices of care.
Baryshnikov Arts Center Presents UNAVAILABLE MEMORY: IN CONVERSATION WITH CUNNINGHAM & CAGE, October 27-29

Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage is an evening of dance and music presenting Merce Cunningham's Totem Ancestor (1942) and Loops (1971) and six piano compositions by John Cage.
Donmar Warehouse Announces Four New Members On The Board Of Trustees

Donmar Warehouse Chair Adam Kenwright has announced four new members joining the Board of Trustees. Professor Hannah Thompson, Jonathan Kanagasooriam, Neil Blair and Sarah Carson join Adam Kenwright, Antonia Romeo, Gerard Lemos CMG, Jonathan Smith, June Sarpong OBE, Lucian Msamati, Susan Boster, Tessa Ross CBE, Tiina Lee and William Eccleshare on the Donmar's Board.
The Cyprus Contemporary Dance Festival Continues with the LANDSCAPE by Elena Antoniou

The program of the 23rd Contemporary Dance Festival continues on Monday, 6th of June  with the LANDSCAPE performance by Elena Antoniou, which has been selected as the Cypriot participation in the Festival.
Salem Ilese & Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova Team Up for 'Crypto ¿Oy' to Raise Money for the Center for Reproductive Rights

'Crypto ₿oy' has gone viral across TikTok + Twitter with millions of views since Salem Ilese first posted the original on TikTok last week with an open verse challenge, even featuring stitched videos by July, sad alex and good problem. Now she's partnering with Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova to give both versions the NFT drop.
ABIGAIL LEVINE - REDACTIONS Announced At The Chocolate Factory Theater

The Chocolate Factory Theater presents the world premiere of Redactions, a new evening-length performance and publication by Abigail Levine.

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