Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.
Marina AbramovicIn real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.
Marina AbramovicWhen I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.
Marina AbramovicI believe stories are very important to all performances. The life story of the performer shapes their work, and the life stories of the audience alter how they receive the work, what they read into the performer.
Marina AbramovicTalking about [Donald] Trump, there's nothing wrong with Trump. He's who he is. It's wrong with us, who let him [win]. That's what's wrong. It's not that he's going to change, but the people who think like him.
Marina AbramovicThrough performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.
Marina Abramovic