As MoMA's official Flickr account shows, the power of sharing a gaze with Marina Abramović brought some participants to tears during her "The Artist Is Present" performance in 2010. In her new "Mutual Wave Machine" project, Abramović introduces neurological sensors to this familiar posture to illustrate the power of the gaze from a scientific perspective. Instead of a museum atrium, participants sit opposite of one another in an enclosed egg-like space, and manipulate audiovisual elements using the synchronization of their brain waves. While the surroundings are manipulated, brain activity is recorded and displayed for visitors outside the enclosure to observe. [via Creators Project]

Back in March, Abramović visited WNYC to talk about a version of the project. Check out a video of the interview below, after a trailer for "Mutual Wave Machine."

"Mutual Wave Machine" will be presented by the Marina Abramović Institute as part of the TodaysArt festival in the Netherlands on September 27 and 28.