Marina Abramović (born 30 November 1946, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia) is a performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art". She is a lecturer at Bard College.

Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind.

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