Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic plays, all too literally, the starving artist. For Abramovic, however, the play matters fully as much as the starving. Her drama, on three high wooden platforms, unfolded over those twelve days to a rapt gallery audience and the relentless tick of a metronome. She needed every element, the props and indeed the literalism, to create, she hoped, a space within the mind…

‘…while I was working on these cups I have been thinking a
lot about my past and how much it was important for me
when I was living in yugoslavia the ritual of drinking coffee.
the entire day was devided by this ritual, take a rest – it was
a kind of situation where people sit silently round the table,
enjoying the moment. we are afraid of time spent reflecting,
doing nothing or being alone…’