Performance art diva Marina Abramović is over parties: “It’s always the same.” Her last scandalous gala featured nude skeleton huggers as dinner centerpieces and heads sticking out of tables. For her latest shin-ding at the Sundance Film Festival, Marina made everyone wear noise cancelling headphones and shut up for one hour. The result? Read more »
Performance art diva Marina Abramović had caused hoopla with her vaguely kinky, “economically exploitative” gala at MoCA for allegedly underpaying artists to hug skeletons naked and poke their heads through tables. Now, some of the “re-performers” from MoMA talk about their wage troubles with museum institutions. Read more »
Last week, word got out that Marina Abramović was going to plop skeleton-hugging nudes on the MOCA gala tables and pay $150 for aspiring performance artists to poke their heads through them — spinning, detached, dead-faced between dishes while art stars and celebs munched their $2,500-$100,000 dinners. Yvonne Rainer condemned it as “grotesque,” “verging on economic exploitation.” We thought it sounded kinky. Was it? Here’s a peep at Saturday night’s party. Just because there was no [overtly apparent] sexual fondling going on, doesn’t mean it wasn’t obscene. Read more »
So, Marina Abramović just got burned by someone she really respects, all because she’s planning to “humiliate” her performers by laying them nude on and under tables where the elite MOCA Gala attendees can gawk at and fondle them tomorrow. Apparently, it reminds people of Passolini’s sexually sadistic torture epic, Salò. Read more »
Any 1%-ers looking for a nice and “sterile” loft with a whiff of celebrity? Performance art diva and static pixel art heroine Marina Abramović has just listed her huge one-bedroom SoHo digs for $3.5M. Read more »
Here’s a excellent little online 8-bit “video game” so everyone can experience the intricacies and frustrations of Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present MoMA performance. Just make sure to click in during museum hours, NYC time, or you won’t get in. Ha! Ha! Read more »
If you like your Marina Abramović desserts a little more intimate, you can bid for her chocolate lips on eBay. Meanwhile, Banksy’s “Identity” eBay sale still has 0 bids.
Performance art diva Marina Abramović loves her edible gold. Unlike her gilded pepper balls, the Volano Flambé sounds ostentatious and scrumptious in your mouth: “dark chocolate ice cream covered with meringue, decorated with gold leaf and a swirl of spun sugar, bedded on chocolate cookie crumbs and flambéed with rum.” Read more »
If you sat across Marina Abramović at the MoMA for The Artist is Present, your face is going to be published in Aperture’s new book of Marco Anelli’s photographs. Count on Pablo Blancas, the doppleganger, the crasher, that chick that kind of looks like Olivia Wilde and you, if you were hot, teary, consistent or VIP enough to stand out of 1500+ sitters.
The US cut of the epic erotic video art/short film set Destricted is out on DVD this month. It’s a bit different than the UK version: Marina Abramović’s mythical Earth fuck isn’t in, but Larry Clark’s interview/awkward anal still is. Read more »
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