Seven Easy Pieces

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Seven Easy Pieces - a series of performances given by Marina Abramovic at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City in 2005.
In an interview in the New York Times in early November, 2005, Abramovic explained the impetus for the performances. The interview states that "she felt a strong need to preserve the memory of performances that influenced her as an artist. There's nobody to keep the history straight ... I feel almost, like, obliged. I felt like I have this function to do it.' And this sense only grew stronger when she began to see ideas behind many important performances borrowed with no credit given, or appropriated by advertising and fashion."[1]
Beginning on November 9, Abramovic presented Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim Museum. On seven consecutiv…
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