She explored new — and overtly sexual — ground with her Seven Easy Pieces series at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Abramović recreated the contentious Seedbed performance by artist Vito Acconci from 1972 in 2005.
In Acconci’s original, the artist spent hours masturbating while hiding beneath a wooden ramp in a gallery and used speakers to broadcast his sexual fantasies to onlookers.
Therefore, there were high expectations and a lot of passion when Abramović chose to reconstruct Seedbed.
Her performance of Seedbed remained faithful to the original: she spent hours masturbating while concealed beneath a ramp, her fantasies revealed to the audience above via pre-recorded audio.
But why did she choose to read such a graphic article?
