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Lady Gaga Gets Naked
Other | Tuesday 13th August 2013 | Christina
Lady Gaga Gets Naked
Last week, saw Lady Gaga post a video in which she appears wandering round a forest blindfolded and totally naked!
The video is part of the Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the Marina Abramović Institute, New York. The institute will be a workspace for Abramović, where she will hold her art and help to breed new generations of artists. The video has helped to contribute over $70,000 for the campaign since it was posted on Wednesday last week.
For those of you who haven't heard of Marina, which if I'm honest, I hadn't either, she is one of the world's most famous performance artists. She has shocked audiences across the world with shows such as 'Rhythm O' where she surrounded herself with items such as condoms, razor blades and even a gun and invited audience members to do whatever they wanted to her with the objects. As a result Marina had a loaded gun held to her head for over two hours. Where many may see this as a bit mad, myself included, Gaga admires her work and believes 'she is such an incredible piece of art in herself.' The lengths that this Serbian performance artist is willing to go proves to Gaga that 'she is a limitless human being.'
The video in classic Gaga style is exactly that .. gaga. It starts off with Gaga lying in a white jumpsuit, in an empty room and for almost one minute singing a single note. The singing of the note is apparently important as it is meant to create cleansing vibrations by focusing on a single part of the body. For Gaga, the focus was on her heart, the A note supposedly being a sound that comes from the heart. The note echoes hauntingly throughout the whole video as she goes from standing in a river with two yellow horns balancing on her face to walking both blindfolded and naked through a forest as well as hugging a giant crystal. I told you it was gaga.
The video has not gone without criticism. Joel Zimmerman aka music producer Deadmau5, tweeted "What the actual f**k? If some idiot howls in the woods and noones around, does it make a sound? MYTH BUSTED." This lead to backlash and abuse from hundreds of Gaga fans aka her 'Little Monsters'. In response to the backlash, Deadmau5 tweeted "wow... all these tweets telling me to kill myself. the little monsters are pro suicide or something? not sure what to make of that."
This is not the first time that Gaga's fans have been shown to be unnecessarily threatening. Earlier in the year, after musician Rebecca Franscescatti filed a lawsuit claiming that Gaga's hit 'Judas' was a copy and a rip-off, fans took to social media with comments such as “Watch you back everytime u step out of ur house Rebecca, cuz you might never be able to go home ever again.” A similar incident took place when Kelly Osbourne was met with abuse from Gaga fans after criticizing Gaga for missing the 2012 Grammys. Sharon Osbourne stepped in by writing a letter to Gaga's manager asking fans to leave her daughter alone calling both Gaga and her fans bullies.
Abramović
was first made aware of Gaga back in 2010 when she turned up to her MoMa show 'The Artist is Present' which involved the Serbian performance artist
sitting at a table in silence, six days a week, seven hours a day. Abramović
admitted that she had never heard of the pop sensation before but she was grateful that after Gaga's appearance at the show, Twitter exploded with interest over her work bringing awareness to a whole new generation.
The two however did not meet until recently. When Abramović picked up the phone to invite Gaga to take part some training at the newly opened institute she was more than enthusiastic. Lady Gaga was put through over 20 hours of training in the Abramović Method. The idea behind this rigorous method is to improve participants awareness of both their physical and mental experience in the present moment. The training involved Gaga wandering around in the forest, naked and blindfolded for over three hours. Apparently though, she didn't even need to be naked! Abramović explained that she had picked an outfit for her to wear but she was more than impressed when Gaga offered to complete the concentration exercise wearing no clothes at all.
Well you can't say that Gaga's not committed. The pop artist is reported to have taken part in the exercise in order to find inspiration for her new album ARTPOP which will be released on November 11th.
Christina Hirst
