The audience doesn't respond because she is lying down. When the fire had consumed all the oxygen, Abramovic passed out. She laid herself in the middle of it after cutting and burning her hair and nails. 'While I do this, I repeat 'Art must be beautiful, artists must be beautiful' until I've destroyed my hair and face.'ДЄ year before that, her performance 'Rhythm 5' included a burning communist star. With 'Art Must Be Beautiful' in 1975, she violently combed her hair with a metal brush and comb. The knife performance was followed by many other disturbing works. When you've made it through everything, the joy is indescribable, Abramovic told Carrie Scott.В 'That's what I live for.' Nothing is easier than doing things you like to do, but that's not how you really experience things, she added. 'Just like with Russian roulette, it's about courage, foolishness, desperation and somberness,' said the performance artist in her recent autobiography, 'Walk Through Walls.' She knew she would be injuring herself and she changed knives with each stab. At the age of 26, she stabbed herself in one of her works between the fingers on her left hand. Marina Abramovic's early works were based on extreme physical experiences and were excruciating both for her and the audience. In 'Art Must Be Beautiful' from 1975, Abramovic violently combed her own hair Her performances provoke, make the viewer aggressive and agitated, they calm and move people to tears.

The energy and associated emotion in Abramovic's art are incredibly intense. If we're not suffering on a personal level, we're suffering for the universe in general.' Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade, where she studied painting in the 1970s.

There are three I want to do: not to die angry, not to die in fear, and to die consciously.' That's something she learned from her grandmother, she added, who regularly laid out different outfits for her own burial, changing them over the years as styles changed. 'Each day you are closer to your death,' Abramovic said in an interview with curator Carrie Scott. She says it's crucial for her to deal with the end. Three Marinas are to be buried - the real one and two fakes - in the places where she has spent the most time: Belgrade, Amsterdam and New York.

Marina Abramovic has already prepared for her death.

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