Abramović was born in Belgrade in former Yugoslavia on 30 November 1946. "When people ask me where I am from," she says, "I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists." (In 1997 she performed Balkan Baroque at the Venice Biennale. It involved her scrubbing clean 1,500 cow bones six hours a day for four days and weeping as she sang songs and told stories from her native country.) Her mother, Danica Rosi, came from a very wealthy, very powerful, very religious clan; her father, Vojin Abramović, came from peasant stock. Both were born in Montenegro and fought for the communist partisans during the Second World War, their bravery making them national heroes and earning them prominent positions in President Tito's post-war Yugoslavian government. "We were Red bourgeoisie," their daughter once told an interviewer.
The family dynamic seems to have been explosive. Her parents quarrelled constantly and Abramović was often beaten by her disciplinarian mother for supposedly showing off. For six years she lived with her grandmother, an extremely religious woman who loathed communism.
"The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.
Abramović was born in Belgrade in former Yugoslavia on 30 November 1946. "When people ask me where I am from," she says, "I never say Serbia. I always say I come from a country that no longer exists." (In 1997 she performed Balkan Baroque at the Venice Biennale. It involved her scrubbing clean 1,500 cow bones six hours a day for four days and weeping as she sang songs and told stories from her native country.) Her mother, Danica Rosi, came from a very wealthy, very powerful, very religious clan; her father, Vojin Abramović, came from peasant stock. Both were born in Montenegro and fought for the communist partisans during the Second World War, their bravery making them national heroes and earning them prominent positions in President Tito's post-war Yugoslavian government. "We were Red bourgeoisie," their daughter once told an interviewer.
The family dynamic seems to have been explosive. Her parents quarrelled constantly and Abramović was often beaten by her disciplinarian mother for supposedly showing off. For six years she lived with her grandmother, an extremely religious woman who loathed communism.
"The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.
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