Marina Abramovic held a "Spirit Cooking" dinner for Museum of Contemporary Art Annual Gala in Los Angeles, California in 2011. What follows are pictures of the disturbing dessert cakes and the strange ritual of that affair.
Translated, it means very young girls and boys of mixed ethnicity. Whether, they were available after the dinner is not known. There were alcoholic drinks available prior to and during the meal. WolfgangPuck's restaurant cooked the dinner.
Abramovic was training young people to perform for such meager pay that it amounted to abuse by the rich. Their job was to either lie naked under plastic skeletons revolving on the $100,000 dinner tables, or poke their heads through the $50,000 and $25,000 table tops while turning themselves on lazy Susans and locking eyes with guests throughout the evening.
Gwen Stefani was one of the celebrities at the Gala affair.
July 2013, Abramovic worked with pop singer Lady Gaga on the singer's third album Artpop. Gaga's work with Abramović, as well as artists Jeff Koons and Robert Wilson, was displayed at an event titled "artRave" on November 10. Furthermore, both have collaborated on projects supporting the Marina Abramovic Institute, including Gaga's participation in an 'Abramovic Method' video and a non-stop reading of Stanisław Lem's sci-fi novel, Solaris.
Marina carved a pentagram on her belly.