Title: Balkan Baroque

Geography: Europe > Southern Europe > Italy

Year: 1997

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Creative Team: Abramovic, Marina | Performance

Synopsis: A durational performance created for the Venice Biennale in which Abramović repeatedly scrubs a mound of bloodied cow bones while singing and recounting stories—an allegorical meditation on war, violence, guilt, and the impossibility of cleansing collective trauma.

Source: https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/marina-abramovic-balkan-baroque ; https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/243/3132