Abramovic plans to make art of her own funeral(s)
The revelation that performance artist Marina Abramovic plans to make her own funeral her last work shouldn’t come as a surprise.
Abramovic, 68, detailed plans for her funeral during a speech in Sydney, Australia, as part of a12-day residency for Kaldor Public Art Projects, the Guardian reported.
She wants to have three bodies — two fake ones — buried in the cities she calls home: Belgrade, New York and Amsterdam.
If her wishes are executed properly, no one will know where her real corpse is buried. She’s even written a script.
Abramovic wants those who attend her funeral to wear bright colours, despite her own predilection for all things black, and she wants her friend Antony Hegarty (the lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons) to sing “My Way.”
Abramovic decided to plan her funeral after attending Susan Sontag’s funeral in Paris in 2004.
“It was the saddest funeral I’ve been to in my life and she is one of the greatest human beings I have ever met,” Abramovic said.
“She was full of life, curious and just an incredible writer. I went back to New York and went straight to the lawyer and said my funeral is going to be like this. And then I made an entire script.
“The funeral is the artist’s last piece before leaving.”