{"id":27393,"date":"2025-05-11T15:53:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27393"},"modified":"2025-05-11T15:53:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T15:53:51","slug":"artist-who-had-nine-orgasms-in-public-museum-for-performance-reveals-the-most-difficult-part-of-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27393","title":{"rendered":"Artist who had nine orgasms in public museum for performance reveals the most difficult part of the process"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marina Abramovi\u0107’s performance piece which led her to have nine orgasms saw the artist run into one particular ‘problem’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The queen of performance\u00a0art<\/a>\u00a0and considered a revolutionary in the field, Marina Abramovi\u0107 has raised a fair few eyebrows with her exhibitions over the years.<\/p>\n

And her recreation of a performance by artist Vito Acconci titled ‘Seedbed’ was certainly no exception.<\/p>\n

Acconci’s 1972 performance piece saw him\u00a0masturbate<\/a>\u00a0for eight hours every day for nine days straight at the Sonnabend Gallery in\u00a0New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2005, Abramovi\u0107 performed her own version at the Guggenheim Museum – also in New York.<\/p>\n

And it was ‘really not’ an ‘easy’ feat for the artist, who later opened up about her main ‘problem’ with the whole experience.<\/p>\n

During the performance, Abramovi\u0107 ultimately ended up experiencing nine orgasms.<\/p>\n

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Marina Abramovi\u0107 is considered a pioneer of performance art (Joseph Okpako\/WireImage)<\/cite><\/div>\n

And she\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0New York Art it ‘really’ wasn’t ‘easy’ to have orgasms ‘publicly’.<\/p>\n

“Being excited by the visitors steps above me – it’s really not easy, I tell you! I’ve never concentrated so hard in my life,” she added.<\/p>\n

But the real ‘problem’ for her when it came to this piece? “[It] was the absence of public gaze: only the sound,” she explained.<\/p>\n

Breaking down the performance in greater detail, the artist\u00a0explained<\/a>\u00a0to YouTube channel Fashion Neurosis: “The piece required masturbation of eight hours under the stage, and the public can just hear my voice on the top.<\/p>\n

“You know I take this stuff seriously, so it was complicated because it was like I do this seven hours, more than five orgasms and it was really difficult because next day I have to do performance on something else, I was exhausted.<\/p>\n

“I wanted to do [art] piece with the female energy.”<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Abramovi\u0107 ‘heard people had a great time’.<\/p>\n

And if you thought Abramovi\u0107’s take on Seedbed was shocking, well, wait until you hear about some of her other art.<\/p>\n

Marina Abramovi\u0107’s other controversial art<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Abramovi\u0107’s performance art raises a fair few eyebrows (Stefano Guidi\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Rhythm 0 (1974)<\/h3>\n

‘Rhythm 0’ was a six-hour long endurance piece performed by Abramovi\u0107 in the Galleria Studio Mora in Naples in 1974.<\/p>\n

It was the final performance of her\u00a0Rhythm Series\u00a0<\/em>and saw the artist stand stock still in a room, viewers invited to come and do whatever they wanted to her – 72 objects placed on a table in front of her, to be used at their disposal.<\/p>\n

While some items included\u00a0bread<\/a>, honey and perfume, others included scissors, nails and even a gun and bullet.<\/p>\n

The piece questioned how far people go when given the invitation to do absolutely anything, alongside being given suggested utensils to use and experiment with.<\/p>\n

By the end of it she said\u00a0she was ‘ready to die’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Genital Panic (2005)<\/h3>\n

In November 2005, Abramovi\u0107 repeated the work of Valie Export at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.<\/p>\n

The work in question? ‘Genital Panic’, which saw Abramovi\u0107 sit on a chair with a gun while wearing crotchless trousers, exposing her genitals.<\/p>\n

Abramovi\u0107’s recreation seeing various differences to Export’s – from what she was wearing, to holding a Kalashnikov assault rifle and being in a museum not an adult film cinema.<\/p>\n

The Artist is Present (2010)<\/h3>\n

Taking place from March to May 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, ‘The Artist is Present’,\u00a0<\/em>saw Abramovi\u0107 turn up every day for three months and sit opposite an empty chair.<\/p>\n

Audience members were invited to sit opposite her and\u00a0have a silent conversation<\/a>. Alan Rickman took part in the exhibition, as did Abramovi\u0107’s ex Ulay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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