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Marina Abramovic states “the only way of expression is to perform.” Using her body as a medium, Abramovic gave herself an opportunity to communicate with the public that she couldn’t do before with painting. She defines performance as “the moment when the performer, with his own idea, steps out onto the stage, in his own physical or mental structure, in front of the audience for a particular time.” Performance, according to Abramovic is real. She believes that without the audience the world doesn’t exist; It doesn’t have any meaning.

Barney explores the processes of the creation of form. Using the male cremaster muscle as his central focus, five films progress from representations of the most undifferentiated or “ascended” state, “Cremaster 1,” to the most differentiated or “descended” state, “Cremaster 5.” It is difficult for me to make any parallels between the two works because they are two completely different concepts and ideas. The one thing that I can say about them is they are both forms of a spectacle.