In New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is Retrospective of the grand ladies of art performance Marina Abramovic (Marina Abramović, p. 1946) . The main exhibit is the artist herself, sitting motionless at the table in an empty museum hall. Visitors can sit down in front of MoMA. Last Saturday, Mr Abramovich was visiting the girl, dressed and groomed almost as much as she. Fan of the artist, later identified as her Brooklyn colleague Liftig Anya (Anya Liftig), sat with Abramovich the entire day - in the same position, without food or water.

Performance Liftig called Fear of influence "- in honor of the book by a famous literary critic Harold Bloom (Harold Bloom), who investigated the" Oedipus struggle "young authors with their predecessors. According to the artist, she was trying to dumb communication with Abramovich: she "told" her about his childhood, about why she decided to do art. For a while Liftig felt that they were with Abramovich are "on the same wave».

Many visitors, of course, were dissatisfied with the performances Liftig - they too wanted to sit in front of the famous artist. But MoMA officials allowed performance-artist to be in the hall the whole day, as she sat quietly and did not like provocation. Museum officials have already put out some active visitors: a man, also dressed in a long dress "under Abramovich" stated desire "to marry her art. He sang, danced, laid out on the table various objects - a result he was asked to leave. Another time, someone climbed onto the table.

Some believe that the theme for Abramovich is the interaction between people, but there is also the view that the performance speaks of impenetrability of another, about the impossibility of this communication. It's like the subway, when two unknown man's eyes, but if the subway you can go and start a conversation, then the museum can not do that, any attempt to direct communication stopped. In the words of another Brooklyn artist, Tatiana Berg (Tatiana Berg), Abramovich, as it invites the viewer to contemplate not her but himself. According to Ani Liftig, in this performance, she also speaks about the role of the artist: how it interacts with the viewer on an intuitive, emotional level, despite the fact that their interaction is tightly regulated museum rules.

material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI

Sources: bombsite.powweb.com , artinvestment.ru