{"id":27462,"date":"2025-05-13T15:29:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27462"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:29:29","slug":"artist-who-let-people-do-anything-to-her-explained-intriguing-reason-she-had-nine-orgasms-in-public-for-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=27462","title":{"rendered":"Artist who ‘let people do anything to her’ explained \u2018intriguing\u2019 reason she had nine orgasms in public for performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Artist Marina Abramovi\u0107 who ‘let people do anything to her’ during her piece ‘Rhythm 0’ has explained why she had nine orgasms in public for another performance.<\/p>\n

Marina Abramovi\u0107 is no stranger to pushing the boundaries when it comes to her art. In Naples, 1974, Abramovi\u0107 spent six hours allowing the public to do whatever they wanted to her. This went from one extreme to the other as\u00a0one person even held a gun to her head<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And putting herself in another vulnerable situation, Serbia’s most celebrated conceptual artist, re-enacted Vito Acconci’s challenging ‘Seedbed’ at New York City’s Guggenheim Museum as part of her\u00a0Seven Easy Pieces\u00a0<\/em>series, and the reason why has been revealed.<\/p>\n

In case you’re not up to date on your art knowledge, Acconci’s ‘Seedbed’ is a performance piece from 1972 that sees him masturbating to completion as his fantasies were played out over a speaker at the Big Apple’s Sonnabend Gallery.<\/p>\n

It’s now 20 years since Abramovi\u0107 recreated the piece, which featured\u00a0Abramovi\u0107 masturbating non-stop<\/a>, while speakers played out her own recorded fantasies.<\/p>\n

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Maria Abramovic is a Serbian conceptual and performance artist (Dave Benett\/Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

According\u00a0to<\/a>\u00a0NY Arts, recreator Abramovi\u0107 once told the Guggenheim’s curator that the ‘taboo element’ initially ‘intrigued her’ and that drew her to the idea, as well as the ‘sculptural element’ of her artistic Acconci’s performance.<\/p>\n

The 78-year-old – who was portrayed by\u00a0Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett<\/a>\u00a0in mockumentary show\u00a0Documentary Now! –<\/em>\u00a0previously\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Art Monthly that her decision to produce\u00a0Seven Easy Pieces\u00a0<\/em>was based on anger.<\/p>\n

“You know in all these years performance was nobody\u2019s territory. But now everybody – I mean everybody – was taking from performance. Even Lady Gaga – you name it – and without really referring to the original material,” she argued.<\/p>\n

Abramovi\u0107 wanted to ‘teach a lesson’ and subsequently gained permission and paid foundations in order to re-stage performances.<\/p>\n

Discussing Acconci’s ‘Seedbed’ specifically, she conceded a biological issue facing her, sharing: “This one is very complicated because men produce sperm but a woman produces something else.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the star went on to\u00a0inform<\/a>\u00a0New York Magazine that she had nine orgasms in total during her ‘Seedbed’ reconstruction, and that she’d ‘never concentrated so hard’ in her life prior to it.<\/p>\n

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Her ‘Seedbed’ re-enactment ended with nine orgasms in total (YouTube screenshot)<\/cite><\/div>\n

“Having orgasms publicly, being excited by the visitors steps above me – it\u2019s really not easy, I tell you!” she said.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve never concentrated so hard in my life. The problem for me, with this piece, was the absence of public gaze: only the sound. But I heard that people had a great time; it was like a big party up there! I ended with nine orgasms. It was terrible for the next piece – I was so exhausted!”<\/p>\n

She later described having an orgasm as ‘such an important moment’, which can make you ‘feel life, connected to nature, birds, the rocks, the trees; everything becomes luminous and beautiful.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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