4 Performances by Marina Abramovic 1975-1976

4 Performances by Marina Abramovic 1975-1976

 

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0h 54m 1996 HD

Documents four of Abramovic's solo works, exercises in which her body is the vehicle for a rigorous testing of the self — violently brushing her hair and her face, vocalizing until she can no longer breathe, intoning a stream-of-consciousness flow of memories, moving to a drumbeat until she literally drops from exhaustion.


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