Abramovic is a satanist who performs satanic rituals under the guise of performance art. Back in 2016, when the allegations first came about, she told ARTnews, Anybody who wants can read my memoirs and find out that [my work] is far away from Satanism. var ca = document.cookie.split(';'); In 2016, Wikileaks posted a tranche of emails from the hacked account of John Podesta, who was the chairman of Hillary Clintons campaign as the Democratic candidate for president of the United States. Please try again later.' // Append ouibounce to page If you dont travel with your body, you can travel with your mind, she says, noting that the revolutionary German philosopher Immanual Kant never left his hometown during his 79-year life. Some were re-performed for a 2010 Museum of Modern Art retrospective, and documentation of the works recently appeared in a big-budget retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. break; Earlier this month, thousands of right-wing activists gathered in Tampa, Florida, for a Reopen America rally that featured a cavalcade of election, COVID-19, and QAnon conspiracy theorists as speakers. }, This approach makes it difficult to engage a wider audience in a meaningful way and demands much of the artist as an emotional translator. get a rise out of an overbearing Christian fundamentalism. As their influence grows, our work becomes even more important as does your support. + '

Get hand-picked stories from our editors delivered straight to your inbox every day.<\/p>' // don't show it on paywall-related pages where the user might be in the process Marina Abramovi in 2000 with her work Spirit Cooking. Wolfgang Weihs/picture alliance via Getty Images. * There is probably no need to call this directly - use setNewsletterCookie(). $modal.addClass( $modal.hasClass('slideInUp') ? In that film, she claims to have tried ayahuasca in Brazil in hope of achieving some kind of enlightenment. Right-wing outlets have focused on a 1987 performance called Spirit Cooking, for which Abramovi scrawled phrases using pigs blood. $.fn.serializeFormJSON = function () { She did turn up at the press launch, however, to explain that since becoming a celebrity she wants to remove herself from her work, to allow it to speak for itself. function setCookie(cname, cvalue, expMinutes, prefix) { + '