marina abramović

BALKAN EROTIC EPIC

interview

by ALEPH MOLINARI

 

Marina Abramović’s performances transform the body into a space of peace. Through ritual, crystals, emotional vulnerability, and acts of endurance, she continually tests the limits of presence, trust, and our capacity to connect with one another.

 

ALEPH MOLINARI — The world and our conception of peace has transformed since the 1960s and ’70s, the decades of civil rights and anti-war protests. Peace needs to be redefined today. What does peace mean to you?

MARINA ABRAMOVIC´ — Peace has completely lost its meaning, for a long time already. We don’t know what peace truly is because of all the wars going on. After the Second World War, there really was peace. It was a time of rebuilding, a time when people enjoyed life. If you look at the movies, the music, the literature, everything that was done — it was…