From 1976 to 1988, Marina Abramović and Ulay explored the extremes of human existence and relationships through performance art. They were partners both as lovers and artists, and together they created some of the most groundbreaking performances in art history. No Predicted End presents their final conversation, 30 years later, as they attempt to uncover a shared truth about love and art.
In Relations in Space, they repeatedly walked into each other head-on for over an hour. In Rest Energy, they balanced each other around a taut bow, with the arrow pointed at Marina’s heart. In Nightsea Crossing, they sat silently across from each other for seven hours, repeating this performance 22 times between 1981 and 1987. In their final joint performance in 1988, they walked from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China, covering over 4,000 kilometers in total. When they finally met, it was not, as originally planned, to get married, but to part ways once and for all.
After an emotional reunion during Marina’s performance The Artist is Present in 2010, and later a bitter legal conflict over rights in 2015, Ulay and Marina decided to meet one last time, for a conversation about their relationship and shared artistic journey. But this time, it was not exhaustion and pain that broke down boundaries, but the awareness of Ulay’s terminal cancer.
The conversation was documented in the film Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End, published by Louisiana Chanel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in 2022.
