Art becomes science in this Russian recreation of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present:
Marina Abramovic, a Yugoslav performance artist, has been a fixture in the art world for more than 30 years. In spring 2010, the Museum of Modern Art in New York featured many of the artist’s older works and a new piece, “The Artist is Present,” where Abramovic sat unmoving in the museum so that spectators could share her gaze for anywhere from a few minutes to a whole day. For Abramovic, the experience was life changing. “The performance becomes the only reality you know … the person in front of you, you perceive his energy, his being.”…
The artist herself spent three hours a day at Garage last week, sitting with museum patrons in a reimagination of ”The Artist is Present.” Russian and American scientists set up an experiment entitled “Measuring the Magic of the Mutual Gaze,” where scientists recorded the brainwaves of Abramovic and her sitting partner in an effort to understand the ability of the brain to unconsciously perceive the emotions of others. The data will be archived so that other scientists can study the ”magic” that happens when two people share eye contact.
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