The doors to the Marina Abramović Institute will open to the public for the first time on Sunday August 12, 2012. Artist Marina Abramović and Institute Director Serge Le Borgne will introduce their plans for the Institute in a 90 minute presentation. The mission of the MAI is to cultivate new kinds of performance of historic pieces. Abramović states, "MAI's aim is to protect and preserve the intellectual and spiritual legacy of performance art formt he 1970s into the future and will serve as an homage to time-based and immaterial art."