Artist performer Marina Abramović talks about Lady Gaga during a recent Q&A session interview on Reddit. Check it out!
godessceline: You will be collaborating with Lady Gaga on her up and coming ARTPOP project. In the beginning of her career, much of her work focused on fame and the demise of the celebrity; first through the music video for “Paparazzi”, and then by being symbolically consumed by the Fame Monster while performing it on stage. What is your relation to your own new found fame, and do you find has it changed you?
abramovicinstitute: The difference between Lady Gaga and me is that my success came much later in my career so I am not affected by it. I’m just finding the way how I can transmit my ideas and realize my dream of my institute and have much people who believe in this participate in this process. This never could happen when I was young at the beginning of my career when nobody even believed that performance art was art anyway. Lady Gaga has luck because this is all happening when she is very young, she is only 27 now. Also she facing danger of enormous pressure of the media and her public and that is not easy when you are young.
Redstreak1: What are some things you have planned with Gaga for the ARTRave that you can tell us about?
abramovicinstitute: It’s a secret at the moment. But we are both excited.
