Back for one night only! in a weeklong performance marathon, Marina Abramovic re-created seminal works by five other artists; she also presented early and new pieces of her own. Her goal: securing a future for an ephemeral form of art.

Art in America | February 1, 2006 | Copyright

In the early 1970s, which for Marina Abramovic (and many others) were performance art's salad days, events were staged on the fly and on the cheap. "We never wanted to repeat things," Abramovic told Nancy Spector in a public dialogue at the Guggenheim following "Seven Easy Pieces," her weeklong stint of performances there. "We never even wanted to be photographed. We were pure pure pure." Well, no longer. After decades of seeing her own performances and those of her peers "ripped off--in fashion, in film, in media," she proposed a radical response: "covering" the greatest ...

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