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Shia LaBeouf #IAMSORRY

After learning about Marina Abramovic’s performance, The Artist is Present, in which she sat in a chair all day every day as people waited to look at her, my mind immediately went to a similar public performance done by actor Shia LaBeouf. LaBeouf sat at a small wooden table, wearing a paper bag over his …

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Picasso Baby

Performance Art by rapper Jay Z. Performed on on July 10, 2013, at the Pace Gallery in New York City. The work was inspired by the work of Marina Abramović and later caused controversy when Abramović expressed feeling used by the artist. directed by Mark Romanek

The Artist is Present

a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which artist Marina Abramović sat immobile in the Museum of Modern Art’s atrium, during the Museum’s 2010 retrospective of Abramović’s work, while spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her. Italian photographer Marco Anelli took portraits of every person who sat opposite Abramović.

Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović (born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian performance artist based in New York.Her work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind. Active for over three decades, Abramović has been described as the “grandmother of performance art.” She pioneered a new notion of …

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