CIRCA presents Marina Abramovic: A Call For New Heroes on screens worldwide + first-ever Abramovic NFT.

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The Hero by Mari­na Abramovic © CIRCA

Mari­na Abramovic leads an unprece­dent­ed three-month CIRCA pre­sen­ta­tion of The Hero, a glob­al call for coura­geous new heroes at a piv­otal moment in our col­lec­tive his­to­ry. Set against today’s back­drop of glob­al insta­bil­i­ty, ris­ing ten­sions and cli­mate break­down, the fig­ure of a stead­fast woman astride a white horse holds sym­bol­ic charge on a world stage dom­i­nat­ed by mas­cu­line pow­er and esca­lat­ing conflict. 

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Lon­don Pic­cadil­ly Lights Ren­der­ing The Hero by Mari­na Abramovic © CIRCA

Insti­gat­ing an extend­ed three-month pause through­out June, July and August, broad­cast­ing across the CIRCA net­work of screens (Lon­don, Seoul, Milan, Mel­bourne, Berlin, New York and Los Ange­les), Abramovic invites a glob­al audi­ence to con­sid­er and assume new def­i­n­i­tions of heroism.

Mari­na Abramovic says: 

“Our plan­et needs uncor­rupt­ed heroes with moral­i­ty, who embody courage and bring real change. Every day in this world is a shaky, uncer­tain, con­stant­ly chang­ing land­scape. For CIRCA 2022, we have this white horse. This white flag. This beau­ti­ful land. We need heroes that can bring new light to illu­mi­nate us. Heroes that can inspire us to be bet­ter, and to work togeth­er, not against each oth­er. Heroes who care.”

One of Abramovic’s most per­son­al and auto­bi­o­graph­i­cal works made after the death of her father, who was a nation­al hero, The Hero was orig­i­nal­ly record­ed in the sum­mer of 2001, a few weeks before the events of 9/11 shook the world and shaped the real­i­ty of the com­ing gen­er­a­tion. Like Rhythm 0 (1974) and The Artist Is Present (2010), The Hero empha­sis­es the aspect of still­ness and endurance that runs like a thread through much of her work. Tran­scend­ing time in a ral­ly­ing, dura­tional dis­play from one of the world’s great­est liv­ing artists, Abramovi? ques­tions whether hero­ism sur­vives, and what shape or form it takes today.

In recog­ni­tion of this piv­otal moment, Abramovic has penned The Heroes’ Man­i­festo, echo­ing her 2011 An Artist’s Life Man­i­festo, yet rewrit­ten to reflect today’s urgent need for hero­ism over artistry. This new call to arms explores the impor­tance to the hero’s jour­ney of soli­tude, for­give­ness, and recog­ni­tion of one’s own mortality:

THE HERO MANIFESTO (CIRCA 2022)

Heroes should not lie to them­selves or others

Heroes should not make them­selves into an idol 

Heroes should look deep inside them­selves for inspiration 

The deep­er they look inside them­selves, the more uni­ver­sal they become 

Heroes are universe 

Heroes are universe 

Heroes are universe 

Heroes cre­ate their own symbols 

Sym­bols are the Heroes’ language 

The lan­guage must then be translated

Some­times it is dif­fi­cult to find the key 

Heroes have to under­stand silence 

Heroes have to cre­ate a space for silence to enter their soul 

Silence is like an island in the mid­dle of a tur­bu­lent ocean 

Heroes must make time for the long peri­ods of solitude 

Soli­tude is extreme­ly important 

Away from home 

Away from family 

Away from friends 

Heroes should have more and more of less and less 

Heroes should have friends that lift their spirit

Heroes have to learn to forgive 

Heroes have to learn to forgive 

Heroes have to learn to forgive

Heroes have to be aware of their own mortality 

For the Heroes, it is not only impor­tant how they live their life but also how they die 

Heroes should die con­scious­ly, with­out anger, with­out fear 

Heroes should die con­scious­ly, with­out anger, with­out fear 

Heroes should die con­scious­ly, with­out anger, with­out fear

Embody­ing the CIRCA 2022 man­i­festo ‘AND NOW WE BUILD WORLDS’, the heroes that Abramovi? seeks today are cham­pi­ons of a new way of think­ing and liv­ing. Call­ing on brave fig­ures to restore peace and reverse the destruc­tion of the plan­et, the icon­ic vision of a rid­er hold­ing a white flag invites con­trast­ing ideas of hero­ism cel­e­brat­ing paci­fism over con­flict; fem­i­nin­i­ty over machis­mo; self-sac­ri­fice over dom­i­nance; and col­lec­tiv­i­ty over individualism. 

Josef O’Connor, Artis­tic Direc­tor, CIRCA, comments: 

“This is a land­mark three-month inter­ven­tion for the CIRCA plat­form and there is no artis­tic voice more vital at this moment than that of Mari­na Abramovic. With ten­sions esca­lat­ing around the world, it is the right time for us all to rede­fine hero­ism. This is not a moment for inac­tion; instead, in col­lab­o­ra­tion with one of the world’s great­est liv­ing artists, we are hon­oured to invite rad­i­cal new visions of those who will lead us all into the future.”

MARINA ABRAMOVIC NFT

Mari­na Abramovic has pio­neered land­mark works that have recast the audi­ence-artist rela­tion­ship, with this dura­tional CIRCA com­mis­sion insti­gat­ing a time­ly con­nec­tion between dis­parate audi­ences around the world. Expand­ing on her icon­ic use of time-based media for a dig­i­tal age, The Hero will be pre­sent­ed by CIRCA on the ener­gy-effi­cient Tezos blockchain. Renowned for embrac­ing new medi­ums and tech­nolo­gies, the artist will announce details of her first-ever NFT dur­ing a live pan­el dis­cus­sion at Art Basel in Basel on 19th June.

Diane Drubay, Arts & Cul­ture in the Tezos ecosys­tem, TZ Con­nect, comments: 

“NFTs are the ide­al medi­um to share Mari­na Abramovic’s and CIRCA’s view of a new par­a­digm through inno­v­a­tive ways of think­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing art. We are thrilled to wit­ness Mari­na Abramovic’s work brought to life for the first time in Web3 on Tezos. Abramovic’s cre­ation The Hero is per­fect­ly at home in the thriv­ing and diverse Tezos Art community.” 

#CIRCAECONOMY PRINTS

Mari­na Abramovic has cre­at­ed a lentic­u­lar print in sup­port of the #CIRCAECONOMY – a cir­cu­lar mod­el that funds the CIRCA free pub­lic art pro­gramme and cre­ates life-chang­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for the art & cul­ture com­mu­ni­ty. Avail­able to pur­chase for £100 exclu­sive­ly on CIRCA.ART until 31st August.

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