Film projection “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present”

28.09.2012, 18.00,
Arsenal power station,

13 Elektryczna St. (the entrance at Świętojańska St.)
admission ticket: normal 10 zl, reduced 5 zl

The film projection will be presented in collaboration with New Horizons Association (Stowarzyszeniem Nowe Horyzonty):

Marina Abramović: Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present

USA 2012 / 106’, direction: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre, photography: Matthew Akers, edition: E. Donna Shepherd, Jim Hession, music: Nathan Halpern

starring: Marina Abramović, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach, David Balliano, Chrissie Iles, Arthur Danto, David Blaine, James Franco

producer: Jeff Dupre, Maro Chermayeff, Francesca von Habsburg, production: Show Of Force, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Foundation 

awards: Berlin IFF 2012 – Panorama Audience Award; Sundance IFF 2012 – Best Documentary; Publicity Award at 6th Film and Art Festival Two Riversides in Janowiec and Kazimierz Dolny

Polish distributor: Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty
film premiere: 5 October 2012

official site: http://marinafilm.com/

Marina Abramovic, born in 1946 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is without question one of the seminal artists of our time. Since the beginning of her career in Yugoslavia during the early 1970s where she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, Abramovic has pioneered the use of performance as a visual art form. The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring the physical and mental limits of her being, she has withstood pain, exhaustion, and danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. Abramovic’s concern is with creating works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life like lying, sitting, dreaming, and thinking; in effect the manifestation of a unique mental state. As a vital member of the generation of pioneering performance artists that includes Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, and Chris Burden, Abramovic created some of the most historic early performance pieces and is the only one still making important durational works.