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Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramović

Artist meets Jeannette Fischer

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A unique insight into Marina Abramović’s biography and art and what connects the two


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"That's why this book is so brave. Because it exposes the highly sensitive engine."

"That's why this book is so brave. Because it exposes the highly sensitive engine."

Olivia Kühni, Republik
Title Details
By Jeannette Fischer
2018
Hardback
176 pages
11.5 x 16.5 cm
ISBN 978-3-85881-794-5

In summer 2015, famous performance artist Marina Abramović and psychoanalyst Jeannette Fischer spent four days together at Abramović’s house in the Hudson Valley. Associating freely, they took a psychoanalytical perspective for a lengthy exploration of Abramović’s biography and art and their interrelation.

Abramović went into this discussion in hopes of reaching a better understanding of herself, her personality, and her work. Conversations with artists are widely available, she notes, but a chance to use psychoanalysis to put an artist’s life and work in context is much more rare. The resulting book is neither a therapist’s report nor a Fischer’s analysis of Abramović. Rather, it is a search for understanding conducted by the pair, looking for the structures and dynamics that underlie Abramović’s life and art. The dialogues are presented along with Fischer’s comments on them and images of some of Abramović’s performances that are referred to in the discussion.

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"Artists, like exceptional women entrepreneurs for that matter, are usually reluctant to look closely at the infernal machine that drives them - let alone talk about it. That's why this book is so brave. Because it exposes the highly sensitive engine." Olivia Kühni, Republik

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