This volume, published in conjunction with the opening of the MAI – Marina Abramović Institute for the Preservation of Performance Art – the only venue of its kind for the conservation, production and enjoyment of long-duration performances – is not only a celebration of the project, but also a summary of Abramović career

Institution for the Future is an archive of ideas bringing together reflections by artists, curators and other cultural workers on what an institution for the future should and needs to look like. With contributions from Ade Darmawan, Alexandra Hodby, Alistair Hudson, Dmitry Vilensky, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Elaine W. Ho, Gerald Raunig, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Xiangqian, Ho Tzu Nyen, Jens Hoffmann, Joao Ribas, Jun Yang, Keren Cytter, Liu Ding, Marina Abramovic, Michael Lee, Monika Szewczyk, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Richard Streitmatter-Tran, Roslisham Ismail, Ise, Sam Bower, Seng Yujin, Third Belgrade, Tino Sehgal, Vandy Rattana and Yoko Ono.

For over 20 years Marina Abramović has collected materials from film, dance, theatre, music, rituals and performance. For her lecture at Live Culture she wound through a personal visual archive of performance related materials focused around the performing body, its mental and physical limits.This documentation has since been presented with the permission of the artist as part of the Performance Matters, Performing Idea, Performance Lecture Archive; an interactive video archive housed at the Whitechapel Gallery between 2-9 October 2010. The archive looked at examples of the performance lecture as a form of artistic and critical expression and its potential to address a broad range of cultural issues and philosophical ideas.

Articles, documentation, blogs, and archive materials from the Pinto mi Raya Archivo Activo between 1991-2001.

A collection of ‘found’ writings about and around Live Art that were originally published, shared, sent, spread and read between January 2010 and December 2011

A history of feminist art from the 1960s.

Artists’ work and critical texts.

For BBC Radio 4, Bob Dickinson met some unusual performance artists. Audio.

Publication to coincide with exhibition, 2013. This item is part of the Study Room Guide to Remoteness (P2600).