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Video: Lady Gaga Goes On NSFW Upstate Retreat With Marina Abramovic, Gets Naked
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Jen Carlson
Published Aug 8, 2013
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Do you think everyone gets to spoon the crystal or just famous people?
Recently Marina Abramovic launched a Kickstarter in hopes of raising $600,000 for her institute, which will be an "interdisciplinary performance and education center [and] home to long durational work and the Abramovic Method." Which presumably involved spooning a very large crystal inside an empty, wooden room.
And there's no better way to draw attention to your cause then to get a big name who is willing to go topless in a video for you. Enter: Lady Gaga. Sure, you've probably seen her naked before, but have you seen her naked upstate, in nature... baring not just her breasts, but her soul?
This video was shot last week at a 3-day retreat where "Marina instructed Lady Gaga in the Abramovic Method—a series of exercises designed to heighten participants' awareness of their physical and mental experience in the present moment."
NSFW, etc.
But since inner peace like this is scary, the Abramovic Method sometimes works best while listening to "Yakety Sax":
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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