Balkan Baroque

Marina Abramović. Balkan Baroque. 1997
Three-channel video (color, sound), cow bones, copper sinks and tub filled with black water, bucket, soap, metal brush, dress stained with blood
Courtesy the artist and Sean Kelly Gallery
Object & video & performances Balkan Baroque (Venice Biennale Venice Italy)
Special note; Marina Abramovic winning Golden Lion for best artist
Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide

[@minikong8169]

I remember watching her performance back in the days... it hit me in the core. While watching, I started to feel that what she did was so very truthful and human... showing many aspects of humanity there, like: the "good" = the will trying to fix and repair things... and the "bad" = some things can't get fixed and never can get repaired... sometimes even the attempt is unavailing and can never be successful... so, one must watch not to fall into despair while breathing and living, though it is important to go on with trying to fix and repair things for not getting lost at all... just, the attempt to fix, heal or repair must channel into protecting the future peace and so protecting future lifes instead of trying to resuscitate the already lost and dead over and over again. Easy written but very difficult to do & live, because that means that you will have to forgive ...the maybe unforgivable... but you know exactly that you have to forgive... because otherwise everything & everyone is doomed. It's sadly still very actual if you take a look to what happens all over the world today... like in the Ukraine, Syria, Irak, many regions of Africa & Asia etc. Thanks Marina!

[@mleecthulhu]

Mini Kong very well said

[@mimihammani9801]

that was one of Marina's best works.

[@snosti]

no she was there just for 7 hours in the basement of the biennial, and she said in one interview about this performance : "every day during that week when i came back home i was trying to wash out the smell of the rotting flesh but i couldn't, and i couldn't eat meat for months afterwards " So that means that the shame and the guilt we feel after war is can't be removed.

[@snosti]

haven't heard them for ages, since "Gulag orkestar" i didn't add the song just found the video and uploaded here, cause i like her work a lot, and wanted to share with the rest. Thanks for your comment, it will be helpful for the people who would like to know, about the song at the beginning.

[@jacycorn]

She's brilliant

[@tomaszpietrzak3908]

Masterpiece!

[@zazakhaled]

she is brilliant. we need a middle eastern baroque to clean our conscience in the middle east... if there is any conscience left.

[@snosti]

no, everything was real, but the best part is after her wining the grand Prix prize for this peace the serbian minister of culture just resigned! Cause he didn't let her to scrub bloody bones for some days in Serbia!!! She felt such a joy after this! Who wouldn't ? :)

[@TheAntoaa]

Wow thank you!

[@snosti]

it's a pleasure :)

[@snosti]

7 hours, as the working time of the bienal

[@theOmarjai]

the song is the akara by beirut !!!

[@surreptitiouswritings]

my hero

[@BrutalSoldier]

4:19 that is a Hungarian folk music.

[@trianglebook3616]

And what's the name of it?

[@trianglebook3616]

Are you the guy who appears in her office in the Balckan baroque movie?

[@TheAntoaa]

was there any controversy about marina doing this balkan baroque performance? if yes, what kind of it and who thought what of it?

[@StivGmz]

it was 4 days long but from what time would she start each day? how long did she scrub for each day?

[@mixiii77]

seven or eight hours

[@Alberocorpo]

ma non c'è un caz di traduzione in italiano dove mi spiega bene l'opera-performance ? non mi spiego perchè al Moma di New York ,centinaia di critici fanno chilometri ci commenti e scritti......

[@leeebra]

Where does one get that many fresh bones? Animal or human?

[@StivGmz]

im sure she didn't sleep there