Day 61, Portrait 19 (6 min.)
“…I felt drawn to the chair opposite Marina like a moth to a light bulb.”
Day 61, Portrait 18 (14 min.)
“i can’t breathe normally - i keep catching on the exhale.”
Day 66, Portrait 14 (13 min.)
“The guy behind me told us he had taken some ‘Lucy in the sky with diamonds,’ which made me think, ‘He’s totally on LSD’ and ‘Wait, people still take LSD?’ (Ram Dass would probably approve!)”
Day 33, Portrait 29 (26 min.)
“You are not allowed to speak, you have to remain in the chair, you cannot put your hands up on the table, and you cannot bring anything with you.”
Day 2, Portrait 8 (73 min.)
“A big tin can rolled across the floor and a cone-shaped cage formed over Abramovic’s mouth and face.”
Day 42, Portrait 10 (33 min.)
“Drop, drop, just like that.”
Day 65, Portrait 21 (18 min.)
Given ≠ received.
Day 70, Portrait 19 (28 min.)
“I sat with Marina dressed as a bride the last Saturday of her performance.”
Day 51, Portrait 18 (7 min.)
“No lie, her visage was a disembodied object that hovered a few inches from her face-place.”
Day 72, Portrait 30 (9 min.)
“I would skip it originally because reminder of the Yugoslavia is often very painful rarely grotesque like thinking about car Yugo.“
Day 52, Portrait 18 (37 min.)
“what can i do for you marina?”
Day 66, Portrait 23 (5 min.)
“I was nervous, sweaty and shaking, feeling a little faint.”
Day 22, Portrait 19 (17min.)
“Each one who sits remembers differently…”
Day 33, Portrait 21 (7 min.)
“She was in red the day I met her and as I sat waiting for my turn, I couldn’t help but think that I was about to have an audience with the pope – Marina as the performance art pope.“
Day 32, Portrait 12 (40 min.)
“I sat in front of Marina Abramovic, six consecutive days…”
Day 48, Portrait 13 (41 min.)
“It was more like a conversation of energy rather than of thoughts and ideas.”
Day 52, Portrait 19 (47 min.)
“My arms are stiff, my dress tangled around my feet.”
Day 62, Portrait 17 (13 min.)
“…she came close to where I was and I looked at her and said, ‘mon tres cher petit chien russe’.”
Day 31, Portrait 14 (23 min.)
“Flesh was a coat, sound was non-existent, the periphery was erased.”
Day 63, Portrait 23 (27 min.)
“If the piece reflects an economy, the legal tender is intimacy.”
