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‘Give unconditional love to each other’: artist Marina Abramović silences Glastonbury for seven minutes
Serbian performance artist tells Pyramid stage crowd to confront cyclical violence in thousands-strong ‘collaboration’
The Serbian artist Marina Abramović, invited by festival organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, led the audience in what she called a “collaboration” called Seven Minutes of Collective Silence, to “see how we can feel positive energy in the entire universe” and act as a bulwark against the horrors of war and violence. Given it was announced only a day prior, there were understandable fears that the audience would not come along in the spirit of the collaboration, and might end up chattering or even shouting out during the intended silence. Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The GuardianIt strangely had an echo of the work of another Pyramid stage veteran: Beyoncé, whose “mute challenge” on her recent Renaissance tour saw entire stadiums of fans fall briefly silent – though for closer to seven seconds than seven minutes.
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