Marina Abramović: An Art made of Trust, Vulnerability and Connection

Performance Artist

via TED

Marina Abramović's performances she’s been cut, burned, and nearly shot — but Marina Abramović's boldest work yet is a gargantuan institute dedicated to transformation through art.

In her art she pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, "The Artist Is Present," she simply sat in a chair facing her audience, for eight hours a day ... with powerfully moving results. Her boldest work may still be yet to come — it's taking the form of a sprawling art institute devoted to experimentation and simple acts done with mindful attention. "Nothing happens if you always do things the same way," she says. "My method is to do things I'm afraid of, the things I don't know, to go to territory that nobody's ever been."

see Marina Abramović Institit MAI