Performing the Absolute. Marina Abramovic Organizing the Unfinished Business of Arthur Schopenhauer
从哲学美学角度，将表演视为创造价值的方式，通过三位艺术家的案例说明表演艺术如何组织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 asthetics, from Kant to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, thus claims that art is the modem 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.