Marina Abramović

Thanks to Sylvie Scahill for telling me about this artist.

Through performance I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.
- Marina Abramović from Lisa Gabrielle Mark (2007). Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press and The Museum of Contemporary Art of Los Angeles. p. 209.