THE BODY AS A WAY OF COMMUNICATION

Today I’m going to talk about a very interesting person.

Marina Abramović was born in Yugoslavia in 1946. She is a performance artist that uses her body as a way of creating art, and in some of them trying to explore her physic and mental limitations. Some of her works are very interesting, but I think that for this communication skills subject there are one of them that is especially interesting.

This work named “The Artist is present” took place in the MoMA in 2010, and Marina was supposed to be sitting in a chair just looking another chair in front of her. People can participate and sit silently in the chair in front of her.  The reason why I think this is quite interesting for the subject is because it shows how non-verbal communication can communicate lot of things. Sometimes you can say more things in silence than with long conversations. If you don’t believe me I hardly recommend watching this short videos and paying attention in the gaze of the artist and see what happens when an old colleague and boyfriend appears in front of her some years after they saw last time.