Ruth Mackenzie’s Adelaide Festival of Arts has two heavyweights, performance artist Marina Abramović and avant-garde artist and musician Laurie Anderson.
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Abramović’s foray into the wellness industry is not particularly surprising. As of 2024, she positions herself as an artist-life-coach.
Abramović is the first woman in the Royal Academy of Arts’ history to have a solo retrospective in its main galleries.
It’s often implied that violent art means something sinister about its creator – most recently, in news stories about ‘scary’ kids’ drawings of death. But the history of modern art suggests otherwise.
This new Australian play, adapted from Heather Rose’s award winning book, celebrates the power of performance to help us connect.
From Fukushima to a stalkers visual diary, art can be confrontational whether it’s far away or uncomfortably close
It’s hard to resist the extraordinary charisma of performance artist Marina Abramovic, who has just started a new residency in Sydney.
This collection of Marina Abramović’s works from 1975 to the present isn’t a retrospective. It offers a chance to consider the supremely artist-centric art as something separate to its creator.
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Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide
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Associate Dean, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Visual Communication, Solent University
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Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
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Professor in Visual Arts, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer, Art and Public Engagement, King's College London
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Bowra Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
