Film Screening “The Artist is Present” – a performance by Marina Abramović
Sun 19 Jul 2015, 6 pm
Nha San Collective
From Nha San Collective:
Nha San Collective would like to invite you to the screening of “The Artist Is Present” documenting a performance of artist Marina Abramović.
Marina Abramović (born November 30, 1946) is a Serbian performance artist based in New York. Her works explore 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 identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on “confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body.”
Abramović performing “The Artist Is Present”, Museum of Modern Art, March 2010.
From March 14 to May 31, 2010, the Museum of Modern Art held a major retrospective and performance recreation of Abramović’s work, the biggest exhibition of performance art in MoMA’s history. During the run of the exhibition, Abramović performed “The Artist Is Present”, a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum’s atrium while spectators were invited to take turns sitting opposite her. Ulay – her former lover and collaborator of 12 years made a surprise appearance at the opening night of the show.
Abramović said the show changed her life “completely – every possible element, every physical emotion”.
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Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE is not a museum, a gallery or an international culture institute where completed work are presented by established artists. Just like Nhà Sàn Studio before, it is a working studio to nurture where artists can create, collaborate, be given advices, critiques, and have chances to meet with international artists, curators. Works that are presented at open studio every month could be finished or not, but the process of developing idea and working to improve the quality of the art work for local artists is what Nhà Sàn COLLECTIVE focus on.
If you are interested and curious about experimental art, and want to have conversation with the working artists, please visit
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