Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramovic

A unique insight into Marina Abramovi's biography and art and what connects the two

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

Abramovi 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 Abramovi. Rather, it is a search for understanding conducted by the pair, looking for the structures and dynamics that underlie Abramovi's life and art. The dialogues are presented along with Fischer's comments on them and images of some of Abramovi's performances that are referred to in the discussion.

Die erste Betrachtung von Abramovic´s Kunst aus psychoanalytischer Perspektive Ein zutiefst persönlicher Einblick in die Beweggründe der radikalen Performance-Künstlerin Englische Ausgabe von « Psychoanalytikerin trifft Marina Abramovi. Künstlerin trifft Jeannette Fischer», ISBN 978-3-85881-546-0

Autorentext
Marina Abramovi ist die zurzeit wohl bekannteste Performance-Künstlerin. Ihre Ausstellung «The Artist Is Present» im MoMA in New York erregte 2010 weltweites Aufsehen. Jeannette Fischer ist seit 1986 freudsche Psychoanalytikerin in Zürich. Sie beschäftigt sich mit Fragen von Gewalt, Macht und Ohnmacht, kuratierte zu diesen Themen Ausstellungen und drehte zwei Dokumentarfilme. Ihr Buch Angst vor ihr haben wir uns zu fürchten erscheint 2018.

Klappentext

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

Abramovic 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 Abramovic. Rather, it is a search for understanding conducted by the pair, looking for the structures and dynamics that underlie Abramovic's life and art. The dialogues are presented along with Fischer's comments on them and images of some of Abramovic's performances that are referred to in the discussion.

Zusammenfassung

A unique insight into Marina Abramovi's biography and art and what connects the two