The performance artist Marina Abramović said she has had three abortions during her life because having children would have been “a disaster for her work”. Love, family, children – a woman doesn’t want to sacrifice all of that.”The 69-year-old is famous for her more than 40 years of performance art. In the interview, Abramović also looked ahead to her 70th birthday party at the Guggenheim – “We’ll see if I can dance down a pole from all the way up in the museum. “The difference between theater and performance is that in the theater the blood is ketchup, and in performance, it’s real,” she told Tagesspiegel of her work. In an interview with the German newspaper Tagesspiegel translated by ArtNet, she said that children hold women back in the art world.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2016 20:16 UTC