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Performance Art and Illiberal Democracy: Marina Abramović's The Cleaner in Belgrade
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 64, Number 1, Spring 2020 (T245)
- pp. 182-189
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
In September 2019, Marina Abramović's exhibition, The Cleaner, billed as her "European retrospective," opened in Belgrade. The funding for the exhibit was secured through a direct intervention that came from Serbian prime minister Ana Brnabić. The Cleaner quickly became the center of a vigorous political debate, which exposed hypocrisies of the regime of illiberal democracy currently in power in Serbia.