Marina Abramović: Celebrating 80 years Venice has a strange way of bringing back things one thought had already been buried in the archive. Press enter or click to view image in full size More about … The Venice Biennale brings back what I had in mind in 2017: A Living Door . Crystals. Bodies. Avatars. Computers. A threshold that is not merely an entrance, but a decision. A passage. A test. A transformation. Press enter or click to view image in full size Link to the youtube video of Marina Abramović and Ulay of 1977 [adult rated] In 2017, while preparing the conceptual ground around 1Biennale , I wrote about A LIVING DOOR as a possible future of immersive interactive art. I imagined two bodies built in the computer — auric bodies — standing in the frame of a door. To enter the exhibition, the visitor would have to pass between them. One would have to turn the face, choose a direction, feel the narrowness of the passage, and ask: Who is real here? The visitor? The avatar? The body? The image? The machine?…