Serbian artist Marina Abramovic has sat for seven hours a day, six days a week, on a chair in the Museum of Modern Art's atrium. Visitors were invited to sit in a chair facing her and simply return her silent gaze. Celebrities including Bjork, Lou Reed, Marisa Tomei and Isabella Rossellini were among the 1,400 people who came and sat opposite the artist, who always dressed in a long cassock.
Abramovic's more challenging solo work has also included stabbing herself, playing with fire and standing motionless for six hours, having invited visitors to do anything they liked to her. At one point, a man held a gun to her neck but she remained still. Ah yes, now I understand. It isn't art, it's madness.
(via J-Walk Blog)
3 comment(s):
I went three times.
Everybody has to eat.
man don't be silly
that's ART ok
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