In conversation with Marina Abramović

"The moment I started working with my body, I had electricity. I had a kind of fever. There is nothing that can replace it."

Dear Readers,

I recently interviewed Marina Abramović. She is known as the grandmother of Performance Art because has been instrumental in pioneering the genre for the last five decades (and counting!).

Since the 1970s, she has stretched the limits of the body and mind. Early works include Rhythm 0 (1974), where she became an object of experimentation for…