A woman of courage she supports opponents of the regime in her home country and sees itself as a Freedom Fighter deploying the weapons of arms against the suppression of muslim women. The pressure must pay as a life in exile. The undisputed queen of Performance ArtMarina Abramovich one of the most radical artists of all time she uses her own body to convey her ideas and explore boundaries. Of trust remember the last page. Today shes an icon. We miss all three these exceptional artists each has overcome a number of obstacles along their way an encounter with three unstoppable women. Spring in new york twenty ten in the museum of modern art Marina Abramovich ventures to do what no artist before her has ever attempted a seven hundred fifty hour performance. For three months she sits on a wooden chair silently looking into the eyes of her visitors and existential experience. The artist is present is the performance which makes Marina Abramovich a legend. Also in twenty sixteen we meet her in new york on her seventieth birthday. A woman who knows the effect she has a bit of a diva cool and very intense. Mother. Forgiveness. Long. Known. Marina abramovic has turned her life into ruthlessness she has exposed herself to pain. Discomfort. Even danger ever since the one nine hundred seventy s. Abramovich grew up after World War Two in belgrade the capital of communist yugoslavia. Had parents the partisans who had fought the nazis during the womb. Had father was a high ranking officer and mother historian it was a strict time where discipline was more important than love. The trial that was you know painting my dreams and then i was writing poetry and then i thought academy and then i start painting and then from the painting somehow come this all idea of making a performance i really was thinking to be in the studio in and paint something which is two dimensional its sort of actually restricted what about going out or what about using fire the water using the elements using the own body using your own blood and your own emotions and creating art with that and this was really my beginning and of course with this inexorable slavia which will inevitably access to the other ideas similar in that time internationally i was like a black sheep in the middle of nowhere and and everybody was thinking im completely crazy this war is nothing this is not you cant call this art my professor. We parents criticize all Party Meetings and i just continue the only thing i have the time it was my intuition some hole somewhere i was right. If you. Give you to. The. Past is more than skin deep literally she brushes her head until his skull leads to criticize the fact that aunt should only ever feel beautiful. Because the painter was in order to free myself from pain the pain is ok and this was exactly youre not youre free the pain confront the self with pain the tree of thats exactly what i have to be done and in my life to become something that i do with everything you know if im afraid of something or you have a panicking or im going to on long i would do it. In a city rainy and Shirin Neshat uses her work to come to terms with her home country. When the Islamic Revolution swept through iran in one nine hundred seventy nine she remained shut was living in the u. S. She didnt return to iran until a decade later it was the last visit. These photos of her response to the countrys altered Cultural Landscape women who wear veils but exude selfconfidence nonetheless i find myself basically world war i thought yet i make it work. Syrian national it is soft spoken and reserved and then precious when it comes to her work in turkey and twenty seventeen her Lifetime Achievement was honored with the global arts Price Premium imperioli venice is familiar territory shes won several major awards here during the b. In Early Intervention seventeen she had an exhibition at the revered billard summer zero career. One of my eyes is a series of large portraits. Measured photographed men and women of all ages in azerbaijan neighbor to iran and former member of the soviet republic each person has a similar pose. As i am patient was a part of iran until the Nineteenth Century so when i went as average and i felt like i was going home and me that never goes back to iran being you know as our version was very sort of moving for me and i was dancing. As a persian is a multiethnic nation between the Caucasus Mountains and the caspian sea. Here muslims jews and christians live peacefully side by side. The artist also asked her photos subjects about their notion of home and penned their answers on to their portraits in the home of my eyes sharing a shot also questions herself. Every last of flavor of what is the meaning of home by being nomadic or not homeless but the magic and it was a interesting because there the things that they pointed out to were that what was the essence of the meaning of home to them certain reasons that with never ever allowed them to leave as i buy insurance of me questioning them a bad their in their relationships as a concept of home was really my own self looking into the mirror and asking those questions to myself. Shirin neshat enjoyed a middle class liberal upbringing and went to a Catholic Boarding School in tehran early on she knew she wanted to be an artist when she was seventeen she went to the us to study the western backed shah was still in power at the time. Then in one nine hundred seventy nine he was overthrown and the islamic fundamentalist Ayatollah Khamenei took over young she. A national could no longer go back to see her family. I think those years were the most traumatic years of my life this separation became really critical for me as a young person who was not quite at ease with the american quarter and their spirit wanted to go home but it wasnt possible because the airports were caused. And american relationship broke down and the war with iraq had become so serious that my family just there please dont even think of coming back before you know it you find other people who are in the same situation and you bond together like i have with my husband my colleagues that i work with and we create our own community as survivors and we made arts and and then you end up creating pioneering your own lifestyle that is not magic. The film royer shows how little Shirin Neshat felt at home in the usa the country of exile. Collaborating and occupying free spaces is also familiar to the shovel its the joining choreographer moved to berlin in the early ninetys ninetys shortly after reunification. The transitioning says he was an elder rather of sorts for the arts fringe anything was possible. Its found at the dancehall songbook his actual votes and guests says often a journey into the on. A list was total i didnt see anything one dimensional where you say one thing and everybody understands the same thing. Thats pretty boring to me. Soon of us discovers theres a fiend sale of a new and choreographs her First Successful dance piece there i lead a cause or avenue of the cosmonauts. And offbeat provocative production part of a trilogy on the absurdities of domestic life. The company spent months researching in the communist era housing complexes of east berlin. Russia votes travels the world with her company off in twenty thirteen they received an invitation to kolkata. In collaboration with indian choreographer padmini chatter and her ensemble its designed a performance in the courtyard and wings of an old private palace from the colonial era. Sons at the project in calcutta was very unusual it was set in an old palace and it led a different kind of storytelling emerge that way the rooms had been sealed off it was as if the life that had taken place there before had stood still and it was like a fairy tale where everybody had fallen asleep in time passes over them the pictures on the wall fade dust settles everywhere. Travelling has always been a part of the way we see ourselves right from the beginning it defines our longing and our self image of ones will says first then. Initially but its danced along with her ensemble she was seeking new forms of expression also with other performing arts dance alone has never been enough for her up i started taking dance lessons when i was five until the age of about twelve. It was only after. I discovered postmodern dance and contact improvisation with some dollars these techniques of consciousness and perception that i really developed an interest in studying dance concert studio during a five year stint as an artistic director of berlin shall be in a theater session of arts created one of the most significant productions coppa. Its an exploration of anatomy that delves into every aspect of the human body both inside and out. Time and again the company conjures images that see themselves into the viewers memory like a nightmare. At the same time possession of us isnt afraid of venturing into more abstract territory in fall when she takes dance back to its more ceremonial ritualistic origins while her early works were wilder and closer to daily life her later choreography is feel more crafted or artificial for korea too if she transforms dances into animalistic creatures and explores social issues. Of our girl of your mother was a gallery and your father an architect. So you may have inherited your talent for strong visuals from the one side but space has also always played a key role in your work what you look for in a space what appeals to here. Is my we actually were hearst are Building Sites a lot of the Jewish Museum had only just been completed it was still empty and the collection hadnt been installed yet and usually where perform at that special moment before the space assumes the function it was designed for. Its exciting because thats the moment that breathes life into a space like that became really clear to me with our work for berlins noise museum the space had this incredible energy. Choreographed exploration of unusual buildings is just one facet of her work. Celebrated opera premiers have followed. Many of the worlds major of preferences are now open to paris rome tokyo and berlin she oversees the entire stage production transforming even the unwieldy medium of opera to give it her signature. Back to Marina Abramovich and they to retrospective exhibition the cleaner wasnt done until the summer of twenty eighteen before moving on to the palazzo strategy in florence. Marina abramovich larger than life a true icon. Her art has changed many peoples perceptions. Penman was walk through walls were published in two thousand and sixteen. Performance and moment over the past really long and you ever did. How did this idea. Come into life and more was very difficult i know that was the man the process but i also know that it was my huge chance to learn to short to the public trust formative force of performers and with the absolute supreme nothing. Other than this artist is present thinking that this chair will be empty because this new york nobody have time to sit there for several sprays it was weird to sit in front of the trail was very never empty and people slept in the front of the museum. And i was think you why this important performance gets to credible you know attention i think because the public right now is so much ready for this kind of spirit was twenty years ago was not the red there was will be Something Else going on to try to now we are so tired of walking things were so tired of all of the goddess of technology of noncommunication on the completely not ability to have emotions to to have relationships august is susceptible right now so the public want to be part of something that they can back their own experience which will give to them. This situation for women in iran is the ever present theme for Shirin Neshat she created her first feature film in two thousand and nine. The story of full completely different women wishing to escape their lives. Yes thats right. But. A woman without then was based on a great novel and thats a clearly written by one of the most important. Women writers who had lived in exile. And you know had often written poetry and my work and my photographs by master poets that i was. I somehow look up to woman particularly women that come from very oppressive societies yet are quite empowered by things to his daughter be sent against him they still need to actually yeah and if all goes what index. Invasion front and then i mean i dont. You know you need a target used to your mind then even just a few. Months from now because and im going to. He was talking to god she was in the states. Its just me i was. Women without men is her most political film yes. She wasnt able to shoot in iran. The film won a silver line at the two thousand and nine bennis film festival. Are you a feminist artiste this question has been asked for me a lot and i once asked my audience do you think im a feminist they all said yes so confusing other famous i have no problem im extremely interested. In women in the way that. Their lives no matter which country what culture they come from and that its always this the reality of the extreme you fat jewel and one noble and yet extremely strong and defy. The latest film is dedicated to the egyptian singer. A tribute to the icon of the arab world. The. Being heard. During our satellites to take a gamble. The. German choreographers russia votes is also driven to new challenges as of twenty nineteen she will become the first ever woman to codirect billion stars. Traditionalist of the dance scene have severely criticized her appointment. For the entire i think its a great opportunity for dance to explore these extreme positions i want to preserve classical ballet on the one hand and create space on the other hand for contemporary choreographers with a contemporary language to work with this diversity in these different possibilities of the body. In the us. Should be able to create an ensemble that can work with these extremes extreme or. New challenges in twenty nineteen its certainly not an easy course. From of it has never really cared much about what others thought of her her public image is again she has the will to be different to be happy to be low in her own way. If you look at the funny performance fashion of the of the Performance Artists it was make it ugly blake or dirty white this is it really never any other thing to wear and lipstick and nail polish you know fashion was totally disregard its like a family to live something that is ridiculous that is like you know its just you know kind of completely borger idea that artists not look like that they dont want to be like a kind of a bundle on a miserable i want to feel good and this and this really works with the with the sun with the you know just not just about fashion is about i do meditation with retreats im going to have a the place is in india i have the all system of to actually how i work with my body my work is plentiful thousand twenty five to space to breathe for the souls to bring you know your performances and trying to do different projects collaboration works so all this mess and then comes this island of quietness which is the performance of self. Oh. In his more recent work the artist has been talking more and settling issues like death. You are where you. You know that you know that youre going to the last part of your life and death you have to really concentrate on the most important things and then decide to be happy this is my main you know kind of say. This isnt about that in seventy five bought. The. Good. I will save some more by buys some more things i think by buying leases getting longer which would it be they also already say by by own happiness by better suffering by by. Intensity i actually will bring back i dont want to say bye bye to intensity im intense human. But i will say the byebye bullshit. But there are. Three artists three free spirits all made it to the top. I moved on and i dont want to always live with this sense of longing in this romantic idea of return i feel that i have come to an end of that chapter in my stories make concepts my characters are altered changing what remains constant is myself. For me is useless for me the strength of dance lies in the fact that its language is so much freer thats what makes it so grand being able to touch that secret behind the wheel i. Have an old leg tell me fifteen years ago kids requires a spray can go through this isnt true this is why its so good if we all grew them i didnt put myself in anything at all. To. Borrow. Fighting for freedom fighting for the momentum of hamas. As a young child or militia dari was sold by her family as a house slave. Twelve long hard years later she regained her freedom now her memory has her power in the struggle against serfdom which shes turned into an international campaign. In fifteen minutes. Toward caution and say theres no andrea german my street on t w. I have its all happening. Of it. Your link to news from africa and the world. Your links to exceptional stories and discussions can you and look im student news actually from spam and from born in germany. On years of easy town i would say d. W. 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