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Posted 7/25/13
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Now this is the Lady Gaga we've been missing!
Never
content to put out a simple teaser video for her new album, Mother
Monster blew minds late Wednesday when she dropped a bizarre, definitely
NSFW clip in which she pays homage to legendary performance artist
Marina Abramović.
Oh and she gets totally nude and hugs a bunch of giant crystals, too.
The trailer of sorts for her upcoming album, ARTPOP
, is a tribute to the Abramović Method, which the artist describes as an exercise that "helps participants to develop skills for observing long durational performances."
In Gaga's case, that means a two-minute video
which opens with her laying on a gallery floor in an all-white jumpsuit
while singing a single note for nearly 30 seconds and then standing in
the rain in the middle of a river doing the same while wearing a pair of
yellow horns over her eyes.
Gaga, who is slated to take the stage on August 25
at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards,
had said in an earlier statement that her new album would find her
working with a number of art-world luminaries and Abramović certainly
fits the bill. The 66-year-old Serbian performance artist has been
provoking audiences for more than four decades, often with works that
are physically challenging.
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One
of her most famous pieces is the 2010 "The Artist is Present" work at
New York's Museum of Modern Art, during which she sat in silence for
more than 730 hours while looking into the eyes of a rotating series of
visitors seated across a table from her. In an interview
about the show earlier this year, Abramović said Gaga's visit to the
endurance event helped raise the artist's profile and introduce her to a
new generation.
At one point in the Gaga video, the singer is
seen sitting on a tall stool in the river with her back to Abramović,
also seated on a tall stool, with both wearing matching grey jumpsuits.
Gaga's one-note vocalization continues in the background the entire
time, including a bit in which she walks, horse-like, through a field
completely naked wearing a black mask, her arms up in the air.
In
the next scene, still naked, Gaga is bent over in a forest holding a
stick while wearing only boots and a black wig. The video ends with a
shot of her hugging, and sitting on, a gigantic crystal and then laying
on a white bed with smaller crystals arrayed all round her head.
"Last
week at a three-day retreat in upstate New York, Marina instructed Lady
Gaga in the Abramović Method — a series of exercises designed to
heighten participants' awareness of their physical and mental experience
in the present moment," reads an artist statement explaining the video.
The first ARTPOP single, "Applause,"
will be released on August 19.
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