DESCRIPTION

I sit motionless on a chair with 5 pythons placed on my body.
The pythons, 3 to 4.5 m long, have not been fed for 2 weeks before the time of the performance.
A circle of ice surrounds me.
During the performance the snakes move around my body following my lines of energy.

DESCRIPTION

I sit with a Skeleton on my lap, next to me is a bucket filled with soapy water, With my right hand I vigorously brush different parts of the Skeleton.

DESCRIPTION

I eat a large onion with the skin, with my eyes looking up to the sky and complaining about my life.

Transcript of the sound track:

I am tired of changing planes so often, waiting in the waiting rooms, bus stations, train stations, airports.
I am tired of waiting for endless passport controls.
Fast shopping in shopping malls.
I am tired of more career decisions, museum and gallery openings, endless receptions,
Standing around with a glass of plain water, pretending that I am interested in conversation.
I am tired of migraine attacks, lonely hotel rooms, room service, long distance phone calls, bad TV movies.
I am tired of always falling in love with the wrong man.
I am tired of being ashamed of my nose being too big, of my ass being too large.
Ashamed about the war in Yugoslavia.
I want to go away, somewhere so far that nothing matters any more.
I want to understand and see clearly what is behind all this. I want to not want anymore.

DESCRIPTION

3-channel projection with copper sinks and tub filled with water tinted black with ink. A video of Marina cleaning the bones is viewed on small monitor inside pile of bones.

Objects: 2 sinks and 1 bathtub made of copper (approx. 50 kilos each), bucket, soap, metal brush, rope, dress stained with blood, and cow bones

DESCRIPTION

This performance comes from my desire to see if it is possible to use simple daily discipline, rules and restrictions to purify myself.
Can I change my energy field?
Can this energy field change the energy field of the audience and the space?

Conditions for Living Installation: Artist

Duration of the piece: 12 days
Food - no food
Water - large quantity of pure mineral water
Talking - no talking
Singing - possible but unpredictable
Writing - no writing
Reading - no reading
Sleeping - 7 hours a day
Standing - unlimited
Sitting - unlimited
Lying - unlimited
Shower - 3 times a day


Conditions for Living Installation: Public

Use telescope
Remain silent
Establish energy dialogue with the artist

Clothes

The clothes for The House with the Ocean View were inspired by Alexander Rodchenko.
The color of the clothes were selected in accordance with the principles of the Hindu Vedic square.
The boots are the ones I used to walk the Great Wall of China 1988.

DESCRIPTION

For three months during the opening hours of the museum and the duration of the exhibition, Marina Abramovic sat silent and motionless at a table facing an empty chair in which visitors to the museum were invited to sit. The duration and frequency of the silent exchange between the artist and sitter was left to the sitter. Marina Abramovic wore a blue dress during the month of March, a red dress during the month of April and a white dress during the month of May. In the final month of the performance, the table was removed.

DESCRIPTION

In a unique work created for the Serpentine, the artist Marina Abramović performed in the Gallery for the duration of her exhibition:  10am to 6pm, 6 days a week –for a total of 512 hours. Creating the simplest of environments in the Gallery spaces, Abramović’s only materials were herself, the audience and a selection of common objects that she used in a constantly changing sequence of events. On arrival, visitors, both literally and metaphorically left their baggage behind in order to enter the exhibition: bags, jackets, electronic equipment, watches and cameras did not accompany them.  The public became the performing body, participating in the delivery of an unprecedented moment in the history of performance art.