Article In Today's The Guardian About Marina Abramovic Mentions Pizzagate

Article In Today's The Guardian About Marina Abramovic Mentions Pizzagate (pizzagate)

submitted 7.2 years ago by think-

There's an article about Marina Abramovic in today's online edition of The Guardian, and guess what?

They mention Pizzagate! ;-)

While her own performance work is linked with shamanistic rituals, the far right have misunderstood her art as Satanism.

Her work surfaced during the Pizzagate scandal of 2016, where one of Abramovic’s emails to Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta (brother of Hillary Clinton campaign chair John Podesta) refers to a “Spirit Cooking,” which is the name of an artwork she made in 1996. It was assumed to be an occult ritual.

“People can so easily put labels, we are afraid of everything,” she said. “I talk openly on every single subject in my work, it’s very important to understand it and put it in the right context.”

https://archive.fo/cS1Dv

But it doesn't stop there:

They also link to an opinion piece by The Guardian's art critic written in November 2016 (who some time ago argued in favour of a painting of Balthus, creator of pedophile art, at the MoMa: 'Arguing over art is right but trying to ban it is the work of fascists.').

'Marina Abramovic: the latest target in the rightwing culture wars' (I'm always rolling on the floor when I read that Pizzagate is solely a rightwing investigation....)

...an accusation that artist Marina Abramović has been schooling senior Democrats in black magic is almost a welcome bit of light relief.

How did avant-garde art star Abramović get involved in America’s most corrosive election season?

Her name appears in the emails of John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, which have been released by WikiLeaks. In one of the messages, she invites Podesta’s art-collector brother, Tony, to “a spirit cooking dinner at my place” and says John would be welcome, too.

...this story about art, satanism and conspiracy theories is just another window on what has gone wrong with democracy.

When you define those who disagree with you not just as political opponents but satanic acolytes of darkness, you are committed to a politics of unreason, intolerance and hate.

https://archive.fo/UsQ2Z

Summary:

1) It's really only art, honestly! :-)

2) Everyone who discusses Satanism in the art world is a right-wing nutbag

My two cents: Art imitates life.

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Nobody27 7.2 years ago

When celebs and high powerful people want to stare at marina and call it art because she sits there and looms at you is concerning. She paints with sperm and blood and calls pain art. She is a witch str8 up. A bloodsucker and a hag. All the symbolisms of her covering children eyes in her magazines speaks for itself. I hear her on cbc on a stupid show hosted by a gay guy called Q. She was talking about art as pain and pain is art. Shes a cow, she will burn like a witch and scream like one. The spirits of the victems will devour her soul to torment. Fuck this dumb bitch, time to bring the sclaping knives and ol skool indian justice...

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think- 7.2 years ago

She is a witch str8 up.

I'm quite sure she is indeed a high priestress / witch in her circle. A sad example of a tortured child (no excuses here, though) who decided at a certain point that she would be the one who would control others in the future. This is the key to her art: controlling herself and others.

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InnocentAngels 7.2 years ago

I did not know Marina has a IMDb page. I stumbled onto it by accident. I had recently seen a movie with Willem Dafoe and was curious about some of his work, so I looked up some things about him. I saw an article on him stating he is up for an Oscar, and saw his wife is a director, so I looked her up on IMDb. Her name is Giada Colagrande. She has done three projects with Marina. The main reason I replied to your comment is one of Giada's movies (The Woman Dress) plot involves a coven of witches.