Working with a star: legacy and the Marina effect

What happens when one of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people hands over control of her work to 12 less-known Australian artists?
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Staged at Pier 2/3 at Sydney’s Walsh Bay precinct, crowds are expected to cue over this ten day event to get a glimpse of Marina; photo ArtsHub

For 750 hours, celebrity performance artist Marina Abramović sat in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA, New York) directly engaging with the public in eye-to-eye contact. The title of the 2010 exhibition, the artist is present, was a declaration of her unwavering commitment to her audience. And, for performance art groupies, that meant you were guaranteed to see Marina.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina