Archives for November 2020
The Phenomenon Of Marina Abramović As Re-enactment Of The Passions Of The Contemporary Elite, Part 2 (Gennady Shkliarevsky)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Contemporary artists (including Abramovic) and critics tend to overlook this critical difference between transgression and transcendence. They fail to recognize and, consequently, critically examine this difference. They merely conflate the two and use this unwarranted…
The Phenomenon Of Marina Abramović As Re-enactment Of The Passions Of The Contemporary Elite, Part 1 (Gennady Shkliarevsky)
The following is the first of a two-part series. Marina Abramovic is arguably the most celebrated contemporary artist in the world. She works in performance art that is currently regarded as the most avant-garde form of art. Abramovic, who is now 74, has once dubbed herself in jest as “the…