THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

From March 14 to May 31, 2010, Abramović performed The Artist Is

Present performance, a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in
which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium while spectators were
invited to take turns sitting opposite her.

Since the early 1970s, Marina Abramović _____(1) _____(2)

pushing past perceived limits of the body and mind, and exploring
the complex relationship _____(3) artist and audience,
through performances that challenge _____(4) herself and, in many
instances, participants emotionally, intellectually, and physically.
The concepts inspiring _____(5) works are key, as is the use of her
_____(6) body to convey her ideas. She has been making art
_____(7) childhood, and realized early on that it _____(8) not have
to be produced in a studio, or even take a concrete form. “I
understood that…I could make art with everything…and the most
important [thing] is the concept,” she relates. “And this was the beginning of my performance art. And the
first time I put my body in front of [an] audience, I understood: this is my media.”

In 2010 at Museum of Modern Art,

Abramović engaged _____(9) an
extended performance called, The
Artist Is Present. The work was
inspired _____(10) her belief that
stretching the length of a
performance _____(11) expectations
serves to alter our perception of time
and foster a deeper engagement in
the experience. Seated silently
_____(12) a wooden table across
from an empty chair, she waited as
people took turns sitting in the chair
and locking eyes with her. Over the
course of nearly three months, for
eight hours a day, she met the gaze
of 1,000 strangers, many of
_____(13) were moved to tears.

“Nobody could imagine… that anybody would take time to sit and just engage in mutual gaze with me,”
Abramović explained. In fact, the chair was always occupied, and there were continuous lines of people
waiting to sit in it. “It was [a] complete surprise… this enormous need of humans to actually have contact.”

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 THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
From March 14 to May 31, 2010, Abramović performed The Artist Is
Present performance, a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in
which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium while spectators were
invited to take turns sitting opposite her.

Sincethe early 1970s, Marina Abramović _has_(1) _been(2)

pushing past perceived limits of the body and mind, and exploring
the complex relationship between(3) artist and audience,
through performances that challenge both_(4) herself and, in many
instances, participants emotionally, intellectually, and physically.
The concepts inspiring _her_(5) works are key, as is the use of her
_own_(6) body to convey her ideas. She has been making art
_since(7) childhood, and realized early on that it _did_(8) not have
to be produced in a studio, or even take a concrete form. “I
understood that…I could make art with everything…and the most
important [thing] is the concept,” she relates. “And this was the beginning of my performance art. And the
first time I put my body in front of [an] audience, I understood: this is my media.”

In 2010 at Museum of Modern Art,

Abramović engaged _in__(9) an
extended performance called, The
Artist Is Present. The work was
inspired __by_(10) her belief that
stretching the length of a
performance beyond11) expectations
serves to alter our perception of time
and foster a deeper engagement in
the experience. Seated silently
_at__(12) a wooden table across
from an empty chair, she waited as
people took turns sitting in the chair
and locking eyes with her. Over the
course of nearly three months, for
eight hours a day, she met the gaze
of 1,000 strangers, many of
_whom(13) were moved to tears.

“Nobody could imagine… that anybody would take time to sit and just engage in mutual gaze with me,”
Abramović explained. In fact, the chair was always occupied, and there were continuous lines of people
waiting to sit in it. “It was [a] complete surprise… this enormous need of humans to actually have contact.”

source: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/marina-abramovic-marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present-2010
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