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Coverbild Marina Abramović. Free Interdisciplinary Performance Lab
A minimalist table of contents page from a book. The word contents is on the left in a black serif font. On the right, a list of section titles with authors and corresponding page numbers includes Introductory Note, Folkwang, A Surprise Phone Call, Workshop Diaries, Cleaning the House, The Director Is Present, The Exhibition as Encounter, Performances, Photo Album, Appendix, and Artist's Acknowledgements. The page number 5 is at the bottom right.
A clean, minimalist two-page spread from a book. The left page features the title marina abramović and the subtitle a surprise phone call, centered with ample white space. The right page contains several paragraphs of text, an essay by the artist, with the page number 13 at the bottom.
An open book spread. The left page is a photograph of a nude person seen from behind, standing on a small wooden stool inside a blue hoop on a concrete floor. The right page contains a typed diary entry about a performance workshop.
A page from a book with a photograph on the left and two columns of text on the right. The photo shows a man in a yellow polo shirt with a small, clear bubble in his mouth, looking at a woman with short, curly brown hair who is facing him in profile against a white background.
An outdoor photograph shows a group of young people standing in a grassy, wooded area. They are all holding small, paddle-shaped wooden hand mirrors up to their faces. To the left of the image is a block of text that titles the activity Walking Backwards with a Mirror and provides instructions.
A woman with long dark hair stands at the head of a long wooden table, serving a meal from a pot into a white bowl for a group of people seated in a room with an exposed stone wall.
A two-page book spread. The left page contains text for the performance piece Climbing to Fall by Anaïs-Manon Mazic. The right page is a photograph of a person in a white suit, brown gloves, and boots, bending over to dig a hole with a shovel in a neat green lawn. A vibrant pink and blue wall is in the background.
A diptych showing a performance art piece. The left image is a close-up of a man in a white shirt and black apron standing behind a large table piled high with potatoes. The right image is a wider shot of the same man in an art gallery, speaking to a group of people seated around the potato-covered table as other onlookers stand against the wall.
A two-page spread from a book. On the left, black text describes the art piece I AM THE TRANSMITTER by Anton Vichrov. On the right, a photograph shows a performer in profile wearing a white hazmat suit with orange stripes, a respirator mask, and goggles against a gray wall. Heavy chains around their neck hold a small, cage-like metal sculpture.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page contains text about the performance Puppet Castle by Camillo Guthmann. The right page features a photo of a young man with curly brown hair in a white tank top and gloves. He holds a large, sharp shard of a mirror and looks at his reflection in profile, while his reflection stares forward out of the mirror against a black background.
A two-page book spread. The left page has text describing the work The Yellow Shoes by Frederico Mendes Teixeira. The right page shows a photograph of a person in a grey shirt holding a pair of glossy, bright yellow pointed-toe stiletto heels against a grey background.
A woman with slicked-back brown hair, wearing a dark jacket and small, dark oval sunglasses, looks down through a glass pane. Her hand is raised toward the glass, and another person's hands are visible on the left side of the frame. The glass shows faint reflections, with a green lawn visible in the background.
A two-page spread from a book. The left page contains text about Moonjoo Kim's artwork, Body Print. The right page is a photograph of Kim, an East Asian woman in a red dress, her face, arms, and hair streaked and dripping with thick black paint. She stands in a dynamic, expressive pose against a white background, her head bowed and arms bent as if in a performance.
A six-panel grid showing two sequences of a woman interacting with a rectangular glass tank of water. In each sequence, she first submerges her head and then dramatically pulls her head back, splashing water. In the final frames, she stares forward with a serious or shocked expression.
A nude person stands on the right side of the image against a gray background, vigorously shaking a white pillow and releasing a chaotic storm of feathers that swirls around their body. The left side of the image is a solid white panel.
A surreal black and white photograph of a person with long curly hair holding a saxophone, standing in a grassy field. They are surrounded by multiple beds arranged in a radial pattern, each occupied by people sleeping under white duvets. In the background are forested hills and distant mountains.
A minimalist table of contents page from a book, with the word contents on the left. On the right is a list of chapters and page numbers, including Introductory Note, Folkwang, A Surprise Phone Call, Workshop Diaries, Cleaning the House, The Director Is Present, Performances, Photo Album, and Appendix. The page has a clean design with black serif text on a white background.
An open book spread. The left page shows a photograph of a nude person with their back to the camera, standing on a small wooden stool inside a blue hoop on a concrete floor. The right page contains a typed diary entry, dated 14.11.2024, about a performance art workshop.
A group of young adults stands in a grassy, wooded area during what appears to be a cool day. Each person holds a small, oval, wooden handheld mirror up to their face. The image is part of a page layout with descriptive text on the left.
A diptych showing an art performance. The left panel is a close-up of a man in a white shirt standing behind a large, round table piled high with potatoes. The right panel is a wide shot of the same scene in a gallery, showing the man addressing an audience seated at and standing around the potato-covered table.
A two-page book spread. The left page contains text about a performance called Puppet Castle by Camillo Guthmann. The right page features a photograph of a young male performer in a white tank top and white gloves holding a shard of a mirror against a dark background. He is in profile, but his reflection in the mirror stares directly forward.
A young woman with her dark hair slicked back and wearing small, oval sunglasses and a dark jacket stands behind a pane of glass. She looks down with a serious expression as her hands and another person's hands are held up to the glass, with reflections visible on the surface.
A photo collage in two columns with three images each, showing a woman interacting with a rectangular glass tank of water. The sequence on the left shows her submerging her head, then emerging with a splash, and finally looking calmly at the camera. The sequence on the right shows her submerging her head, then being splashed by water from above as she emerges, ending with a shocked expression.
A vertically split image with a large white space on the left. On the right side, against a plain gray background, a person vigorously shakes a white pillow, causing a massive cloud of white and brown feathers to explode and cascade down around their body, captured in a flurry of motion.
A two-page spread from a book with a minimalist design. The left page is mostly white space, with the title marina abramović and the subtitle a surprise phone call centered in a black serif font. The right page contains several paragraphs of black text in the same serif font, with the page number 13 at the bottom right corner.
A page from a book featuring a photo and two columns of text. The photo shows a man in a yellow polo shirt and a woman with curly hair facing each other in profile against a white background. The man holds a clear, bubble-like object between his lips as they gaze at one another. A caption identifies them as Anton Vikhrov and Pau Holtkamp performing.
An interior shot shows a woman with long dark hair dressed in black, standing at the head of a long wooden table and serving food from a pot into a bowl. Several people are seated at the table, looking on in a communal dining setting in front of a rustic stone wall.
A two-page book spread. The left page features text by Anaïs-Manon Mazic for her 2023 performance, Climbing to Fall, describing the symbolism of digging a hole. The right page shows a photograph of a person in a white suit and leather gloves, using a shovel to dig in a vibrant green lawn against a pink and turquoise color-blocked wall.
A two-page spread from an art catalog. On the left is text describing the work I AM THE TRANSMITTER by Anton Vichrov. On the right is a photo of a person in profile wearing a white hazmat suit with orange accents, a full respirator mask, and heavy chains around their neck holding a small metal sculpture.
A two-page book spread. The left page has text about Frederico Mendes Teixeira's project, The Yellow Shoes. The right page is a photograph of a person in a grey shirt holding a pair of bright, glossy yellow high-heeled shoes.
A two-page spread from a book. On the left is text by artist Moonjoo Kim. On the right is a photograph of a woman in a red and black dress, her arms, shoulders, and face streaked with a thick, dripping black substance. She is captured mid-movement in an expressive pose against a plain white background.
A surreal black and white photograph of an outdoor scene where a person with long hair stands holding a saxophone. They are surrounded by several beds arranged in a circle on the grass, each occupied by a sleeping person under a white duvet. The background is a hilly, forested landscape.
A gray typographic cover with the words Free Inter Disciplinary Performance Lab in a large black font. The name Marina Abramović is layered over it in bold white text, followed by Pina Bausch Professorship 2022-23.
Marina Abramović. Free Interdisciplinary Performance Lab
Pina Bausch Professorship 2022-23
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Designed by: Hugo Huerta Marin
Edited by: Folkwang Universität der Künste
English
November 2024, 312 Pages, 250 Photos
hardcover
224mm x 286mm
ISBN: 978-3-7757-5731-7

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The pioneer of performance art and her class
With the first appointment of the outstanding performance artist Marina Abramović to the Pina Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts, the focus in the 2022-23 academic year was placed on transdisciplinarity, artistic daring and social awareness. The project supervised by Abramović, entitled "Free Interdisciplinary Performance Lab (FIPL)," was realized in a class of around twenty students from the fields of music (classical and jazz, instrumental, vocal and composition), dance, design, photography, (physical) theater and directing. The students developed individual or collective concepts for performances and learned how to create a long-term performative work form in an experience- based process. Through a workshop entitled "Cleaning the House", they developed a sense of the presence required in performances, including the exploration of their individual physical and mental boundaries, according to a method proposed by Abramović.

Marina Abramović has been setting international standards as a performance artist since the 1970s. Her own body is usually at the center of her often extended performances. She has taken part in documenta three times since 1977 and was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1997. Her performance "The Artist is Present" at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010) became famous. After teaching in Paris and Berlin, among other places, she took up the newly established Pina Bausch Professorship at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen in the winter semester of 2022/23.
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