Basic Idea of what Marina does...

According to my research, Marina has approximately fifty works spanning over four decades of her early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances, and collaborative performances made with Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). Ulay was a German-born artist who created a couple of performances with Marina between 1976 and 1988. His collaboration with her brought out the idea of duality between them. The idea was introduced to investigate ideas such as the division between mind and body, nature and culture, active and passive attitudes, and male and female.


Personally Marina's works consist of things one wouldn't consider as "normal" or "sane". She puts herself or other people in uncomfortable positions to depict "art" as she views it. She uses "body" as both her subject and medium due to her wanting to explore the physical and mental limits of her being. She incorporates pain, exhaustion and danger in the quest for emotional and spiritual transformation. 

She takes art from traditional media such as painting and sculpture and moved it directly to her body and she doesn't consider her body as just a surface to create art with but the body as the "point of departure for any spiritual development". She refers herself as the "grandmother of performing art," due to her being part of the earliest experiments in performing art and still to this generation is still creating art.