Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present - Speakeasy Cinema

Overview

Speakeasy Cinema has recently settled in to their new home at Grey Gardens Projects, and their first film at the venue will be the incredible documentary that focuses on Marina Abramovic’s legendary performance, The Artist Is Present. In 2010 at MoMA in New York, the so-called grandmother of performance art spent seven hours a day for three months staring into the eyes of whoever sat opposite her. Throughout her career, the Yugoslavian artist has pushed her physical and mental capacity to the limits with her experimental and confronting work. This documentary offers great insight into Abramovic’s artistic process, and the toll it takes.

Speakeasy Cinema screened The Artist Is Present back in 2013, and is back due to popular demand but also to celebrate Abramovic’s current residency and retrospective exhibition in Australia. Sadly she won’t be dropping into Melbourne this time around, so if you want your Abramovic fix without buying a plane ticket, this will be the best way to get it.