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Marina Abramović - The Artist Is Present: This emotional exhibit, held in the Museum of Modern Art for three months in early spring 2010, featured Abramović sitting in a chair for the entirety of the day at the museum. Visitors were encouraged to sit silently across from the artist for a duration of their choosing, becoming participants in the artwork. Abramović, acting as an “emotional mirror” to the patrons, silently stared at them, often inducing deeply profound and heartbreaking reactions.
the artist didn’t know what was going to happen when she started the project, but when people started sitting down and she looked at them , a lot of people started crying simply because someone was acknowledging them and looking them in the eye. On the artists website there’s pictures of all the people and how long it took them to cry
learned about this in my art class. sooooo interesting.
i was actually in new york at this museum when this was going on. it was very strange
(Source: halogenic)