Film
Freeing the Memory
1975Directed by Marina Abramović, Ulay
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- Released
- Runtime
- 16m
About Freeing the Memory
- Documentary
Synopsis
‘Freeing the Memory’ is the second of three significant performances enacted in 1976 in which Marina Abramović attempted to achieve a mental cleaning through the exhaustion of the three main faculties of expression, voice, language and body. In this piece, Abramović said every individual word she could recall until she could no longer continue without repetition. The mental strain of this act, which lasted ninety minutes, allowed the artist to exhaust her consciousness into a state of complete blankness.
- Directors
- Marina Abramović
- Ulay
