will . Indeed , people flock to the gallery as if they were on a pilgrimage , with some visitors lingering for hours , many coming back , some leaving behind drawings , letters , and small gifts . They all watch her , transfixed , in dead silence . The only faint sound comes from a metronome at the foot of her sleeping bench , counting seconds , as if they were heartbeats . Born in 1946 in the former Yugoslavia and now a resident of New York , Marina Abramovic is probably the last of the first performance-art generation that specialized in the endurance-art mode , popular in the 1970 s and 1980 s . In a performance staged in 1974 , she invited her audience to do whatever they wanted to her , using items such as roses scissors , chains , and an axe . Ultimately , the performance had to be discontinued when the audience became too aggressive . In 1992 , in Hamburg , she added pythons and boa constrictors to her performance art . At the 1997 Venice Biennale she sat inside a pavilion , ami...
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