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## Video: Watch: Waiting Hours in Line For Marina Abramovic’s ’512 Hours’

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## Mirren Gidda


Jun 19, 2014 6:46 PM UTC

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[Mirren Gidda](https://time.com/author/mirren-gidda/)


## Mirren Gidda


Jun 19, 2014 6:46 PM UTC

[Marina Abramovic](http://time.com/70823/marina-abramovic-2014-time-100/), the self styled “grandmother of performance art,” might be 67-years-old, but she shows no signs of slowing down. Her latest exhibition, [_512 Hours_](http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/marina-abramovic-512-hours), opened at London’s Serpentine Gallery last week to lines so long they spawned their own [hashtag](https://twitter.com/hashtag/sgqueue) on Twitter.

For 8 hours a day, for 64 days – a total of 512 hours – Abramovic and her assistants will walk amongst gallery entrants, directing them to various places around the room, and encouraging them to breath, to relax and to heighten their awareness.

_512 Hours_ is a long way from the Serbian artist’s solo performances of the 1970s. In her infamous _Rhythm_ series, Abramovic stabbed herself, jumped into a burning star, took drugs to induce catatonia, and, most memorably, offered visitors 72 objects, including a scalpel, which they could use on her.

Over the ensuing decades her reputation continued to grow, culminating in her previous show, [_The Artist Is Present_](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/12/14/10-best-movies-we-missed-this-year/slide/marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present/)_,_ at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art in 2010\. Visitors, among them James Franco and Lady Gaga, were invited to sit across from Abramovic and gaze at her, with many moved to tears.

The artist has attracted such a following that she has created the Abramovic method, which music icon [Lady Gaga said she used](http://www.complex.com/art-design/2013/08/watch-lady-gaga-practice-the-abramovic-method-in-the-woods) to kick her marijuana habit. The method involves fasting, slowly drinking water, counting rice grains and gazing into mirrors to develop mindfulness.

Aspects of the method have clearly found their way into _512 Hours,_ where some visitors are invited to stare into mirrors. Abramovic has also suggested she might incorporate furniture into forthcoming performances.


_512 Hours is running until August 25, entry is free and on a first-come, first-served basis._


## Transcript

[ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ]. I thought, I thought she was gonna be like, on the floor washing the floor with, with some red rubber gloves. People warned me that I would be disappointed so I wasn't that much disappointed because I, I knew, I knew I'm gonna be disappointed. Quite a curious experience. While we were walking in everyone kinda just found their own space and nobody was quite sure what was going to happen. Marina came, take my hand and sit me again on a chair and just told me a few word in, in the ears. That take your time to listen to silence which we don't do anymore. There often people that lead you around.

And they lead you around the space and get you to do specific things. Very simple things, but they always, they like, they take your hands and stuff, so it's quite sort of Interactive I think if you're a little bit repressed like, it's probably a bit confronting. I think in Marina's shows, you never know what to expect and then, what happens is not what you really thought was going to happen. The curious thing is you can't work out who is part of the exhibition and who is just a punter like yourself. It was cool to see Marina cuz she's like, she's like God artist kind of thought. It was nice to just have your own pace and yeah.

It's very curious, cuz you are part of something that [ INAUDIBLE ] within yourself. It's, it's definitely worth it. It's interesting.

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