Making the same mistakes again, and we never get out into unknown territory.” Marina performed another extreme show in 2010, this time in New York.
Marina arranged a table with an empty chair across from her at the Museum of Modern Art. ‘The Artist is Present’ was the name of the two-and-a-half-month-long performance.
For seven hours every day, Marina sat in the chair and invited others to sit in front of her for a “silent conversation,” but they were instructed not to touch or talk to her. Actor Alan Rickman was one of the people who accepted Marina’s offer.
“I gazed into the eyes of many people who were carrying such pain inside that I could immediately see it and feel it,” she told the Guardian afterwards.
“I turn into a mirror reflecting their feelings. After staring at me angrily for ten minutes, a large Hell’s Angel with tattoos all over him started crying like a baby.
