In the end, I am alone. . Her voice is a seductive Slavic purr; you sense she might be a Marlene Dietrich fan. On her mantel in the living room theres an Ettore Sottsass Shiva vase, shaped like a penis; we face it as we talk, splayed out in Olivier Mourgue folded-man-shaped chaises longues straight out of 2001: A Space Odyssey. } }, 100); $('body').on( 'click', '.close-signup', function(){ document.body.appendChild(script); pagetypeurl = document.URL, As her fame grew, she began to move outside the confines of the traditional art Establishment, even as she helped make the idea of performance art something that mainstream-famous people sought out (see James Franco, who sat opposite her in the atrium). She never stops working, spinning out ideas, narrating in impressionistic loops. if (jQuery(window).width() > 619) { A pioneer and key figure in performance art, Marina Abramovic uses her own body as subject, object, and medium, exploring the physical and mental limits of her being. The furniture in the house was mostly chosen by Canevari, another less-motivated-to-work-than-she-was man. function daysToMinutes(numDays) { There is a lot of black, and clothes by Yohji Yamamoto and Maria Pinto. Employing duration, pain, danger, exhaustion, and viewer participation, she works at extremes as she complicates the relationship between art and audience. onSuccess(); It is a profoundly moving moment, one that has been watched more than 14m times on YouTube. var paywallPagesRegex = /^\/subscribe|subscribe-confirm|my-account(\/|$)/; After dining on lentils, we return to the future lounges and discuss a Times story about how pandas in zoos are being shown panda porn to put them in the mood, and how her mother had commissioned one of the leading socialist-realist sculptors to make the bronze bust of her at 9 that looks at me as I sleep in her guest room (her friend the singer Anohni, formerly of Antony and the Johnsons, who occasionally stays with her up there, told her that she needed to talk to it, that sad little girl). var ouibounceScript = '