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Lady Gaga Gets Naked & Primal for Marina Abramovic Institute

By Elizabeth Coady

SO I WATCHED THIS VIDEO OF GAGA practicing the Abramovic Method AND now I feel all tingly and in touch with the world. Or maybe it’s just fear awaking my adrenalin.

Gaga goes naked and primal to help kickstart the Marina Abramovic Institute, a future space that will be “dedicated to the presentation and preservation of long durational work.”

“We need a place to create some kind of laboratory where we put together art and science and technology and spirituality in a new context,” implores Marina Abramovic, a performance artist who leads participants in public demonstrations of stillness. She’s already halfway to the $600K in donations she’s seeking.

“It’s a very simple exchange,” Abramovic declares on a video. “If you give me time, I will give you experience. If you don’t give me your time, there is no experience.”