“I can tell you that it’s incredibly difficult to get excited by the guests’ steps above me! Never in my life have I focused so intently,” she continued.
However, what was her actual “problem” with this piece? She clarified, “[It] was the absence of public gaze: only the sound,”
“The piece required eight hours of masturbation under the stage, and the public can just hear my voice on top,”
The artist stated in a more detailed explanation of the performance to the YouTube channel Fashion Neurosis.
“You see, I take this things very seriously, so it was complicated because I had to perform on something else the next day, and I was fatigued after doing this for seven hours and had more than five orgasms.
“I wanted to do [art] piece with the female energy.”
However, Abramović ‘heard people had a terrific time’ with it.Wait until you see some of Abramović’s other works of art if you found her interpretation of Seedbed startling.
