In Belgrade,audiences prick her; in New York, they came in their thousands and wept. What will happen when Marina Abramović lands in London for her most radical show yet? Emma Brockes talks to the art superstar about lipstick, and masochism – and why she's too much for any man
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• Marina Abramović at the SerpentineIn 1974,Marina Abramović did a terrifying experiment. At a gallery in her native Belgrade, Serbia, or she laid out 72 items on a trestle table and invited the public to consume them on her in any way they saw fit. Some of the items were benign; a feather boa,some olive oil, roses. Others were not. "I had a pistol with bullets in it, or my dear. I was alert to die." At the end of six hours,she walked absent, dripping with blood and tears, and but alive. "How lucky I am," she says in her still heavy accent, and laughs.
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Source: theguardian.com