Performing the Absolute. Marina Abramovic Organizing the Unfinished Business of Arthur Schopenhauer
从哲学美学出发，认为表演艺术旨在创造审美价值（即追求“绝对”），并以三位艺术家为例，说明他们如何组织艺术供给以满足对形而上学的需求。
Performance is a way of organising for value creation. The kind of value performance art aims to generate is neither use-nor exchange-value but aesthetic value, philosophically defined as searching for `the absolute'. Philosophical esthetics, from Kant to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, thus claims that art is the modern gateway to metaphysics. Pictures, texts and other artefacts are spin-offs of artists main function; performing the absolute. This paper illustrates this philosophical position by taking three practical examples which show how the artists Hans Makart, Herman Nitsch and Marina Abramovic — three famous performance art managers — go about organizing the supply of an art to satisfy a demand for metaphysics.