This scenes recalls a performance which is a few month ago: the grande dame of 1970s performance art, Marina Abramović, spent three months in silent vigil at New York’s Museum of Modern Art alongside a major new retrospective of her work (“The Artist is precent“, March 14–May 31, 2013). Yesterday we saw another performance which involved viewer participation too. The protagonist: Jay-Z. The location: Pace Gallery in New York.

Similarly, Jay-Z, who just relased his new LP “Magna Carta … Holy Grail”, invaded the exhibition space and performed his song “Picasso Baby” for six straight hours – a performance that will be compiled into a music video. Guests included Marina Abramović herself, among other celebrities and local New Yorkers. See Jay-Z and Marina Abramović on stage:

videos via Cedar Pasori.