The Performance Art of Marina Abramovic As a Transformational Experience
Psychology, 2018, 9, 1329-1339 http://www.scirp.org/journal/psych ISSN Online: 2152-7199 ISSN Print: 2152-7180 The Performance Art of Marina Abramovic as a Transformational Experience Lília Simões, Maria Consuêlo Passos Department of Postgraduate in Clinical Psychology, Pontifical Catholic University of Pernambuco, Curitiba, Brazil How to cite this paper: Simões, L., & Abstract Passos, M. C. (2018). The Performance Art of Marina Abramovic as a Transformation- Based on issues raised by the autobiographical memoirs of the performing al Experience. Psychology, 9, 1329-1339. artist Marina Abramovic, this article seeks to discuss the transformative po- https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2018.96081 tential of her work, based on the analysis of six selected performances in Received: April 23, 2018 which the artist uses the body as an object of her art, exploring as a means of Accepted: June 25, 2018 expression of physical limits, exhaustion of the mind and relationship with the Published: June 28, 2018 public. Our objective is to investigate how the artist appropriates the perfor- mance space to discuss through psychoanalytic theory the ritualistic and Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. transformative dimension of her work. Using the field concepts of Antonino This work is licensed under the Creative Ferro and transformational object of Cristopher Bollas. Finally we propose an Commons Attribution International analogy between the space of performance as the analytical field, the perfor- License (CC BY 4.0). mance and the relationship with the public proposing a transformative aes- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ thetic experience. Open Access Keywords Art, Performance, Field, Transformational, Psychoanalysis 1.
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