If you are in London on Monday (11 December), you will be able to catch a rare in-person performance by Marina Abramović. Well, only if you already have one of the free tickets, as they were snapped up in hours after the event was announced yesterday.
Ill health has meant that Abramović has left the job of recreating her seminal works at her current Royal Academy retrospective (until 1 January 2024) to her team of trained performers.
But the queen of performance art will be there in person on Monday, to lead a "one-off public participation performance" in the courtyard outside the RA. Called An Invitation to Love Unconditionally, the work will "invite participants to share a moment of stillness and togetherness through physical contact, for seven minutes".
What exactly the work will entail has not been revealed, but the terms and conditions state the RA has the right to chuck anyone out for "unacceptable conduct", which suggests participants might be getting up close and personal—if you weren't able to nab a ticket then perhaps travelling on the tube at rush hour might invoke the same feelings.
