Uproar Over L.A. Museum Performance
This was an event held in 2011. I am not sure why it is only now in the news.
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Marina Abramović’s idea was to feature performance art at a MOCA party. The result was angry class war.
Marina Abramović, the performance artist, came up with a powerful, unnerving idea when L.A.’s Museum of Contemporary Art asked her to curate their annual fundraising dinner in 2011.
The year before the Francesco Vezzoli, the Italian artist/provocateur, had treated that same dinner as a live artwork, using Lady Gaga and danseuses from the Bolshoi Ballet as his raw materials.
That event—I described it here—had been a hit.
thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/24/naked-girls-skeletons-and-tilda-swinton.html
The art notion that Abramović came up with was to have a human head protruding through a central hole in every table.
Their naked owners would be kneeling beneath on Lazy Susans, rotating by degrees, and making eye contact with each guest at the table throughout the meal.
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