I understood that I have much more purpose than just being artist, that I actually have to create legacy and all my experience of last 40 years to put in it. When I stood out of the chair after all this 736 hours sitting on it, I was a different person. What's the goal?ĪBRAMOVIC: You know, as you mentioned, artists is present my performance and with respect to MoMA it was absolutely the changing point in my life. LICHTMAN: So tell us about the institute. MARINA ABRAMOVIC: Thank you for having me. It is such a pleasure to have you on SCIENCE FRIDAY. She's based in New York City but joins us from Oslo today. Marina Abramovic is an artist specializing in performance art. She's trying to build a laboratory where arts and science mix.Īnd I'm going to let her tell you more about it. It's the sort of experiment, she says, she'd like to showcase at an institute. She has since collaborated with neuroscientist to perform the same piece with an electroencephalogram or EEG strapped around her head, tracking her brain waves during the session. Some sit blank faced, others smile, and many start to cry. Their reactions are truly amazing to watch and you can do that online.
The experiment lasted for two and a half months and in that time over 1,500 people sat in front of her. The artist sat motionless in a plain wooden chair for about eight hours a day and invited museum guests one at a time to sit across from her and gaze into her eyes for as long as they wanted. You might not think of New York City's Museum of Modern Art as a science lab, but a few years ago my next guest used the museum to stage an art installation that was, in some sense, a social experiment, a way to investigate human emotions and human consciousness. This is SCIENCE FRIDAY and I'm Flora Lichtman.
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