marina abramovic, it is been of - all deeply connected. easure having you on hardtalk. ., ,, , ., , pleasure having you on hardtalk. ., ~' , ., , . hello. it is going to feel like spring for the first part of this week for many of us. in fact, in some places you'd be forgiven for thinking summer had arrived early with values up to 22 or it may be 23 degrees. but by the end of the week it will feel more like winter has returned. much colder air digging its way southward just in time for the easter weekend. and in the shorter term, northwest scotland could see localised flooding over the next couple of days as this wriggling weather front brings heavy and persistent rain. to the south of that weather front that's where we're going to be importing the very warm air but noticed there is something much colder up to the north. that will come into play by the end of the week. along the line of our weather front, heavy rain particular for northern ireland and western scotland. very, very mild to start monday morning. 12 or 13 degrees in places. but

marina abramovic in upstate new york, welcome to hardtalk. hello, everybody.easure to have you on the programme. i want to begin, if i may, with the relationship you have with your audience, with your viewer, because it seems to me there can be no more intimate relationship than the one that you forge with the people who come to see your work because you are literally eye—to—eye or even skin—to—skin. do you relish that? you know, so many artists with a performance background have a different approach to the public. some of them actually don't need the public. they go into a kind of zone and doesn't matter how many people are watching them, but i'm not one of them. for me, every single person in the audience, every single person in there, is important and matters. and i have to keep a relationship emotional, physical, mental with them. but that requires extraordinary levels of energy. i'm just thinking of perhaps your most famous performance work of all, the artist is present, which went around the world but began at the museum of modern art in new york city, a