Marina and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. retrospective Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’ as part of the show, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened
@Karolina-jo8yd
3 жыл бұрын
thank you!
@machin8593
3 жыл бұрын
I didn't want to be the guy who starts a sentence with actually, especially 8 years after your comment, but actually they had prepared this performance 8 years prior to doing it while they were still going strong, but the Chinese government took so long to allow them to do it that in the time it took for them to get China's approval, their relationship plummeted. Anyway, this performance the Artist is Present always makes me cry.
@phoenixrose8466
Жыл бұрын
@@machin8593 he cheated on her with his chinese translator and got her pregnant, that's why their relationship ended
@tmr3109
Жыл бұрын
Not true....Marina and Ulay saw each other plenty of times after their goodbyes at the great wall of China, she talks about her in her book, which I'm reading. Ulay was flown in to this performance at Marina's request. Also, Ulay took her to court to get more money for their performance work shortly after this performance ended. She talks about all this in "Walk through Walls".
@hitmixhyepock9405
Жыл бұрын
@@phoenixrose8466 oh it wasn't her satanic bullshit she does?
@nhdaniele
11 жыл бұрын
An entire life in a moment. Life is the real masterpiece.
@gregoryallenn
3 жыл бұрын
A’men
@Takac1979
6 жыл бұрын
More or less I go through my life feeling like that woman that sat after Ulay.
@dislocational
2 жыл бұрын
:(
@user-tu3dw4wq7y
28 күн бұрын
что вы имеете в виду? 😢
@whyilee
11 күн бұрын
I would've liked to be the woman after Ulay. Catching her after that intense moment. Sharing with her the feeling of what just happened. Being the first face she sees after being shaken. I am sure there was an intense connection and she remembers the woman's face as much as his.
@hunkydory3063
11 жыл бұрын
I think the part of this that touched me the most is how she tries so hard at the end to compose herself to continue her art but she has to keep closing her eyes. You can tell that she is still so in love with him.
@lauralouwhooo
10 ай бұрын
It was emotional sure, but they weren't in love. He later sued her (and justly won) because she tried to cut his name out of their joint works and robbed him of the profit. He won the case but passed a few years later
@MagnusRender
8 ай бұрын
I love that you responded and clarified that 10 years after that comment was made.@@lauralouwhooo
@McGovP
7 ай бұрын
That continuous closing of her eyes is called blinking.
@parading_panda1210
7 ай бұрын
@@McGovPGAWT DAMN. WHATS THAT SHIT ON HER HEAD??
@JulyJuneJanuary
4 ай бұрын
It's perfect @@MagnusRender
@kuramafan300
11 жыл бұрын
Marina and Ulay were partners in art and lovers in life for 10 years or so in their youth. They ended their relationship in 1988, and they haven't seen each other since until the weeks leading up to this exhibit in MoMA. Ulay visited Marina's home before the performance, but she didn't expect to see him again on the opening day of her exhibit. He went through the gallery and got in line like everyone else. It totally surprised her.
@hertribe1978
Жыл бұрын
This is beautiful ❤️
@PrashantSingh-ur7cp
11 ай бұрын
So beautiful ❤...I come back to this video whenever I doubt love.
@GabyGibson
4 ай бұрын
That I didn't know. Wow
@jasonmartinez5045
8 ай бұрын
Imagine being the person who had to go after him.
@mishaa7263
3 ай бұрын
ms frizzle
@tikkiturtlegal
9 жыл бұрын
I'm moved every time I watch this...just pure human connection. Amazing.
@PavelSenko
7 жыл бұрын
Because you don't know that they are former lovers and now he is suing her
@biggusmunkusthegreat
7 жыл бұрын
LOL what? Why is he suing her?
@biggusmunkusthegreat
7 жыл бұрын
Man she sounds like a piece of work...
@littleghostfilms3012
11 ай бұрын
This proves that 'performance art' is legit and can be extremely powerful for both the artist(s) and the spectators who get a glimpse into their souls through the performance.
@juliemagic
6 күн бұрын
I learned about this performance from an art history textbook. I went to KZitem to satisfy my curiosity. I didn't think I would cry. The language of gestures, eyes, and tiny facial muscle movements told more than words. I am impressed. It is a heartbreaking moment full of love and empathy ❤
@DuaneStorey
Жыл бұрын
This is how I look when the Dominoes pizza guy finally shows up at the door.
@jd6331
11 ай бұрын
😄😏
@floatingsara
2 жыл бұрын
Love in the time of social media: I just managed to write to a man I loved 20 years ago. We were together very little time, he had long planned to go abroad on business and I had to go back to finish my studies. But he was handsome and possibly the sweetest man I'd ever met. After he left, I wondered countless times where he had gone and "what if....". He answered to me, with the same sweet kindness I remember. Today he is happily married, as I am. But I have never really forgotten him and I wish I could see him again, even if only for an hour.
@MultiLex101
24 күн бұрын
smh hes married what is wrong with you.
@jujubee4765
10 ай бұрын
That sparkle in her eyes as soon as her recognized him🥺❤️
@saidpasha8659
Жыл бұрын
"In reality, people are not most disappointed by their failures, but by the happiness that they never experienced, because they never allowed themselves to experience it" from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel "Crime and Punishment.
@agapesatori8041
11 жыл бұрын
Yes she is and she doesn't hide it, she even mentioned something about it in her interviews, but she still managed to keep herself together and continue her performance. What a woman, what a professional, what an artist!
@billy100308
2 жыл бұрын
Truly beautiful. Connecting on this level is what everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime. This demonstrates that no matter how good something is, that unless you work at it to keep it it isn't guaranteed to work. However, some things are just meant to be.
@Pujext
Жыл бұрын
I come and watch this when I want to feel emotion
@TheKiddOnDrums
Жыл бұрын
She’s evil
@TheHolyFoolLee
10 жыл бұрын
I find it funny that people are saying "is this what art has come to/become?" She us doing something that has been done cor 50+ years! Shes a performance artist. She is showing emotion and crying as if seeing a long lost lover each time someone sits down. That is Art in its truest form. Its not a painting or a sculpture, its true love and emotion, thats what Art is. She did this everyday for 7 1/2 hours for 3 months.
@RIDETHESUNSHINE
9 ай бұрын
“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.” ― Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table
@sfroghy
12 күн бұрын
The way Ulay nodes his head ,like: "Yes I know ,what a mess!" 🥺
@TheLapper13
2 жыл бұрын
the beauty of raw human connection and true human emotion. The memory may get blurry but the heart never forgets. ❤️V. ‘93
@jennylynarcher8986
2 жыл бұрын
The truest most purest form of long lost love 😊❤! The connection they share after all those years, you can see it in their faces, and their eyes speak out loud! This is the most beautiful thing ever, and I need to just watch this when I need a reminder 🤗. I can see the hurt,the passion, the love, that look of just don't speak cause I can already read you & feel you! Noone truly needs words, we are bound by energies & connections!
@youcrazycat1
3 жыл бұрын
This is how I will greet my friends after Covid.
@TheDemonhunter333
2 ай бұрын
Did you?
@janicecooper119
11 жыл бұрын
still love after all these years. I think of my lost love as a young girl. thank you
@veroniquedelphi7689
8 жыл бұрын
How beautiful. Thank you for inspiring and daring to expose yourself for art.
@roebunnie
2 ай бұрын
just absolutely beautiful. i love coming back to re-watch this powerful and moving moment during this performance. their love is one of the greatest.
@SD-ym9bd
9 жыл бұрын
I do not know her until I have come across this video. this is really beautiful. Great emotions has just been displayed.
@cavalier127
4 жыл бұрын
Bad emotions*. He sued her and won for joint artwork. He impregnated his translator and cheated on her multiple times during their relationship. Can’t judge a book by its cover
@ninapollock5267
10 ай бұрын
The immediate smile is everything!
@oscarreyes2946
Жыл бұрын
u will never forget the first love, bad or good he's/her will always the first one.
@IIAOPSW
10 жыл бұрын
"no description available" is uniquely the most apt description possible here
@GabyGibson
4 ай бұрын
You can see how happy she is to see him. And he is, too. Absolutely moving.
@rudy93170
Ай бұрын
extraordinaire ,pas de mots, des sensations ,de l'histoire ,au coeur de l'être humain depuis le AAAA
At first I thought how I like her blood red dress then I noticed Ulay's shirt collar has colour of a calmer shade of red--this whether by accident or done intentionally, is very endearing. Thank you for the vid x
@RogerNuncioMusic
11 жыл бұрын
An entire life in just one minute true the eyes.....
@logon900
3 ай бұрын
My Art History professor showed us this as one of her lessons. I'm so glad I found it again. Every time I need a good happy cry I'll come back to this video.
@nashesolnishko
10 ай бұрын
Как она погладила его пальцы...Это любовь женского сердца
@G_Lyon
17 күн бұрын
Wow que profundidad, que intensidad y que momento más tenso e introspectivo… obvio hablo de la música lo otro es una payasada!!!
@mrdcnas
10 жыл бұрын
beautiful performance art piece! those tears mean more to me, than some random painting...
@JayB2
6 жыл бұрын
That's so beautiful. They had such a connection.
@punkerz250
2 жыл бұрын
she is a satanist : kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHupsICEgIh7ano&t
@UFOcomputers
2 жыл бұрын
@@punkerz250 • Nobody’s perfect
@Dhirajkumar-xf6xq
2 жыл бұрын
@@UFOcomputers what did you say?
@mariotoro6927
2 жыл бұрын
@@punkerz250 no one cares, ooo spooky devils, look at you, so scared of imagined demons and goblins and satans lolol
@christinapetrova3067
Жыл бұрын
It’s the fact that he came back 🥲
@TheAlexMomo
9 жыл бұрын
ce moment... Un véritable luxe
@ahmettopacoglu45
Жыл бұрын
this may be the first thing which is totally art and totally real at the very same time.
@KavitaSingh-jw9lz
6 ай бұрын
My heart filled with pain and eyes with tears after watching this
@MrMystere68
11 жыл бұрын
intensissimo...se l'arte deve fare emergere emozioni, allora questa è arte
@noorusmah
2 ай бұрын
how can something so simple gets me bawling
@alessandro.carvalho
2 жыл бұрын
Talvez a cena mais bonita da arte performática.
@francazedda5250
23 күн бұрын
Adoro Marina Abramovic e la sua arte concettuale che ti tocca dentro. È controversa, spudorata, coraggiosa, creativa, fantastica, lugubre, geniale e unica.
I did that nearly too. It is a truly moving moment of the film.
@peacepalestinesyria
11 жыл бұрын
he was her partner in life and work for a long time, and i think this was their first encounter after the end of their relationship.
@todorela
11 жыл бұрын
Odgledala sam danas ceo film. Plakala i plakala i vraćala ovu i još neke scene po ko zna koliko puta. Predivna je.
@zackcovell
11 жыл бұрын
so very beautiful and touching!!!
@tonyflow21
9 жыл бұрын
Y es ahi en ese preciso momento en el que la mirada se combierte en voz y el cilencio es el grito que despierta el alma ........
@PeachTea38
3 жыл бұрын
I hv watched this sooo many times
@punkerz250
2 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHupsICEgIh7ano&t
@anthonyn.9228
10 ай бұрын
Love this.
@ann_jee
2 ай бұрын
To have so much to say but just to converse with the eyes..❤True art
@janeccameron
11 жыл бұрын
so beautiful
@TheAccountMaking
11 жыл бұрын
I was touched even without knowing what was going on, lmfao.
@hypnosis07
8 жыл бұрын
Instant tears
@Esotericyoga
2 ай бұрын
She is me. I am we. We are one.
@MrpachecoX
9 жыл бұрын
Human connection tells all. Its enough.
@joanna1699
6 жыл бұрын
just beautiful, made me cry.
@punkerz250
2 жыл бұрын
she is a satanist : kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHupsICEgIh7ano&t
@mortic0n
11 жыл бұрын
I cried at this part. Just cried and cried.
@Judithdoodle
Ай бұрын
Love that she let go first
@Doctorcammez
11 жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic
@fiorebella3179
Жыл бұрын
I cry everytime i see this
@harborwolf22
Ай бұрын
The type of performance an actor would give their life to recreate.
@VasiliiTsar
Ай бұрын
Beautiful
@ohsweetyno
Жыл бұрын
i'm sobbing
@ingridmaeda7823
10 жыл бұрын
Nos anos 70, Marina Abramovic viveu uma intensa história de amor com Ulay. Durante 5 anos viveram num furgão realizando todo tipo de performances. Quando sentiram que a relação já não valia aos dois, decidiram percorrer a Grande Muralha da China; cada um começou a caminhar de um lado, para se encontrarem no meio, dar um último grande abraço um no outro, e nunca mais se ver. 23 anos depois, em 2010, quando Marina já era uma artista consagrada, o MoMa de Nova Iorque dedicou uma retrospectiva a sua obra. Nessa retrospectiva, Marina compartilhava um minuto de silêncio com cada estranho que sentasse a sua frente. Ulay chegou sem que ela soubesse, e foi assim...
@maytti1646
Жыл бұрын
Que história maravilhosa
@jamiewhite5839
8 жыл бұрын
such emotion in this........
@goku21youtub
7 жыл бұрын
only for the weakminded
@nerminartt
Жыл бұрын
Woman really beautiful
@williamcecil5280
11 жыл бұрын
Lovely!
@thetopbird
11 жыл бұрын
Ulay: I love that dress Marina: Thank you Ulay: OK
@pereiraxnd
11 жыл бұрын
Eu chorei muito.
@kaileemae7348
9 ай бұрын
What people have to understand is art is subjective. Weather someone says this is art or not they are right no matter what. That’s what is so cool about art it’s neither right or wrong, correct or incorrect.
@jode68
Жыл бұрын
She knew he would be there, she wore red
@zypister1
10 жыл бұрын
how touching!
@gloriaglo4156
4 жыл бұрын
L'amore vero non muore mai...
@MEXICOTKD83
11 жыл бұрын
thanks for this.
@jacobchow1483
9 жыл бұрын
She looks like she does the same facial expression Ulay made at 1:26. Like it's something they did when they were together. Anyone else see that?
@jkellogg2
2 күн бұрын
No one seems to mention that he looks basically unemotional. He feels awkward in the moment, that’s very clear, and makes sense. I don’t see anything at all like what so many other people seem to see with him here.
@Mellymelwaddahell
6 ай бұрын
Imagine if after you die you have to sit down with every single person you’ve ever crossed paths with, to rencounter how you treated them.
@Max-yk5mo
10 жыл бұрын
omg this made me cry.. I WANT ANSWERS ugh :o
@FasterFaster196
3 жыл бұрын
So lovely. He began suing her in 2015. 🤣
@bufboston1
Жыл бұрын
Ha!
@attilaszabo2603
9 жыл бұрын
I missed the hugs. The hand touch is very deep, but...but..
@brenocalixto6253
3 жыл бұрын
Pica Pau e Chapeuzinho vermelho eram contadas pela minha mãe quando eu era BaBY!
@ChrisPatti
11 жыл бұрын
Read the earlier comments, it's explained in detail there.
@emiliagajda6581
10 ай бұрын
Dusza cierpi.........❤
@abeeralsayedhasan2960
6 ай бұрын
أو الأجدر نقول الحب احساس اكثر منه فعل أو كلااااام
@sh0352
3 жыл бұрын
This is how i feel when i eat the last cookie
@punkerz250
2 жыл бұрын
she is a satanist : kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHupsICEgIh7ano&t
@slavkosaric3804
4 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. dear Ulay!
@luciagrazia2063
4 ай бұрын
Scena più commovente che io abbia mai vista
@NYCRocker
11 жыл бұрын
It would've been nice to have some background on this first as I had no idea what I was watching. I had to weed through all the comments, do Google searches, etc., which distracted me from the video itself. I still don't know what the truck in the museum was all about and what he said.
@gabe_s_videos
4 ай бұрын
I didn't know the context of this when I started watching it, so I assumed that part of the performance was her deliberately making herself cry every time someone sat down in front of her (which itself is evocative of something, I think), and I though "My god, that must be so taxing on her!" For her sake, I'm very glad that no, it wasn't just that. XD
@phoebechan4025
3 жыл бұрын
So moving...
@punkerz250
2 жыл бұрын
oh really ?? she is a satanist : kzitem.info/news/bejne/lHupsICEgIh7ano&t
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