Topic 12: Imposing

Imposing power through facial expression, speaking, writing, body language, images, sounds, smells, actions, force. The interesting thing about the smiling portraits is how the roles of commander and commanded change. Also how the way of imposing changes: through words orthrough images and face expression. Can I make it more straight to the point, about imposing power, like Marina Abramovich performance in the MoMA? A person is easy to command if willing to be commanded. It is more complex than it sounds and that is what makes the topic interesting. How do you find ways to make people want to be commanded?

1) "Ms. Abramovic was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1946. Her parents were heroes of the Yugoslav revolution under Tito and lived well as a result." http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/arts/design/12abromovic.html

Party members offspring... hm! Didn't know that.

2) “Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.”
"Mao Tse-Tung"

1984 - can be seen online here

Monument on Buzludja, Bulgaria,
Alexander Ivanov, 2008

What if Marina Abramovich's parents were not "more equal than others"? I am sure she would not have had the same career as she does now.