Balkan Erotic Epic explores the sexual aspects of Serbian folklore. Ancient myths that have trickled into everyday household remedies or explanations are juxtaposed with the joys of the female and male sexual forms from which all human life originates. Functioning as both sexual liberation and reinvented modern myth, Balkan Erotic Epic is a display of the need for a cultural change in viewpoint around sex.
This multi-channel video installation, consisting of seven short video works presented on vertical wall-mounted display panels, is based on Marina Abramovic's research into Balkan folk culture and its use of the erotic.
The artist is lying outdoors on a metal bunk bed as a storm seems to approach. Metaphorically, her body holds an electrical source and becomes a transmitter and conductor of energy as the current flows through it.
The artist is seen aggressively combing her long hair. With a brush in one hand and a comb in the other, she works on her face and hair, while repeating the sentence "art must be beautiful, artist must be beautiful", as if she is in pain.
A five-pointed star made of wood is set on fire. The artist walks around it and throws hair clumps and toe-nail clippings into the fire at each point of the star (8 mm film transferred to digital video in 2011, no sound, b/w).
A naked woman sits on a raised bicycle seat in the middle of an empty room as a projected light on her is forecasting her shadow around. It's a work about luminosity and the human being's transcendental quality, the body being just a tool.
Shows the artist, who slowly, very slowly, covers her eyes with her hands. Her action is actually so slow that, in the beginning, the viewer might even notice her hands moving.
A 9-channel video installation consisting of nine 30-minute "dragon head" self-portraits, made through the years following the artist's separation from German-born performance artist Ulay.
An American Sign Language interpreter performs a compilation of excerpts from printed reviews of music and performances - in which the authors employ written language to describe their auditory experiences - only using ASL.
A five-channel video installation containing five video works by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic: 'Dissolution', 'Insomnia', 'Luminosity', 'Dozing Consciousness' and 'Lost Souls'.
Artists Ulay and Marina Abramovic both decide to end their relationship and to mark this with a performance in which they start to walk from different ends of the Chinese Wall in order to meet in the middle and say good-bye to each other.
A 3-channel video installation showing three shirtless male dancers (from Asian, European, and African origins) aggressively dancing to tribal drums and music, with the artist's point of view exclusively focused on their pelvis.
Marclay and his group of assistants indulge in playing vinyl records by hand, scratching, rubbing, breaking and finally crushing them with their feet. They do everything with the records except conventionally playing them on a turntable.
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