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It’s just down to earth,” she tells me, completely seriously, of the film – even though her house, built in the shape of a star, is filled with amazing furniture and art, and the grounds are vast enough to hold an aircraft hangar-sized shed containing her archive. “I think it’s important to demystify the idea of this glamorous life. Sometimes, this This delicious glimpse into the life of the world’s most famous performance artist comes from a new documentary for BBC One’s Imagine series. The two upright points implied the horns of the Satanic goat. It was said to represent evil or Satanism.

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And then I got Lyme disease and I didn’t go for a while.” She smiles. Photograph: Courtesy Marina Abramović Archives/DACS 2020/BBC“Very often. How often does she go there?Portrait With Skull With Eyes Closed. The triangle within a circle symbol also of todays Alcoholics Anonymous group is on the wall while the satanic X.I’m quite taken with her woodland hut, overlooking a river, which has no electricity or a bathroom – only a giant crystal, a chair and a bed.

On the night, they did not – as the work suggested – consume “fresh breast milk with fresh sperm milk” or (to my knowledge – I didn’t ask) “morning urine”. She was inviting him, John and a number of others, who had donated money to her institute, to a “Spirit Cooking” dinner – a joke, based on her work in which she scrawled “love spells” on the wall of a gallery in pig’s blood. It started when an email Abramović had sent to her friend Tony Podesta, brother of John Podesta, who was running Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, was leaked. “I make art because I believe in art.”Abramović’s profile has also brought her to the attention of a strange group of online conspiracy theorists who are convinced she is a cannibalistic satanist, or – because she is a member of the “liberal elite” – part of a global paedophile ring. “I didn’t make art for that,” she says.

One said: ‘I will reveal your deepest secrets in two hours.’ I started laughing because I don’t have any secrets. I had people saying they were going to come to get me, they were going to kill me, it’s unbelievable. They Googled me, and I am perfection to fit a conspiracy theory.” The five-pointed stars in her work, either burning or cut into her flesh (not a pentagram, but symbols from her communist childhood), the blood, the death, the dramatic clothes and long dark hair – you can see why people got overexcited.She can laugh at the bonkers nature of it, but also says it is “absolutely disturbing. “I’m an artist, I’m not a satanist. “This is something I have been deeply bothered by,” she says.

It’s pretty ugly right now, it’s not fun at all.”In March this year, Frank Uwe Laysiepen, known as Ulay, her collaborator and lover in the 70s and 80s, died. I’m just waiting to see what’s going to happen in this election. Abramović moved to the US in the early 2000s, but she doesn’t know how long she will stay. It’s horrible because it gives a shadow to the meaning of my work.”Strange times indeed.

Then we had a huge law case in which I lost everything.” A slight exaggeration – a Dutch court ordered her to pay Ulay €250,000, but by this time, as a solo artist, she was hugely successful. Then he offered me the chance to buy the rights over the work, then we had fights over this. After that, she says, “I didn’t see him for seven years, then we started talking again. “We had this huge love story, then we separated on the Great Wall of China, then he made his Chinese translator pregnant.” She and Ulay met in Amsterdam in 1975, and worked together for 12 years – much of it spent travelling around in an old Citroën police van, creating challenging and influential performance works including one where, leaning back and perfectly balanced, he holds an arrow aimed at her heart while she holds the bow.When they conceived their piece The Lovers, the original plan was to each start at opposite ends of China’s Great Wall and get married in the middle, but, by the time they got permission from the Chinese authorities in 1988 – eight years later – they had separated. “Well, with Ulay it’s complicated,” she says.

We had made some incredible, important work. But truly, I forgave him in the deepest way. “It’s really easy to say you can forgive someone, but to really forgive with your whole heart is the hardest thing in the world. What to do? To leave? What the fuck?” she laughs.A month of daily 5am meditation practice will sort out a lot. They are there for one month, and I am there for one month. I arrived, and Ulay and his wife were there already.

She has, she says rather guiltily, found lockdown “wonderful”. Photograph: Sten Rosenlund/Rex/ShutterstockThe past few months have been a healing time. A few months later he passed away.” It was a peaceful conclusion to their relationship, she says.Marina Abramović and her former partner Ulay in Stockholm in 2017. They last talked late last year, and she says he thanked her for their work. “And then we became friends.” A couple of years ago Ulay came to Abramović’s house so they could record their memories.

I think human beings are afraid to have free time, we’re always looking to fill up our agenda till the end.”Even so, she has been busy. I’ve never been so relaxed, so happy, so focused. And then the moment this whole thing stops, I could only concentrate on a few things.

And Sky Arts has just commissioned her to make four or five hours of performance art for television.Then there is a show at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which was supposed to open last month but has been postponed until next year. There were masked and socially distanced rehearsals, and regular tests. “Performance will survive because performance always survived, because it’s an immaterial form of art.”Abramović has also been working on The Seven Deaths of Maria Callas, her multimedia opera based on her heroine, which opened in Munich last month, in which Abramović directs and stars in seven opera death scenes. She wonders aloud whether the pandemic will put the brakes on art as a commodity: “We don’t have any more space, it’s too much, it’s too expensive, the economy is falling down, everything is falling down.” This won’t be the fate of performance art, though. With an edition of three, Abramović will appear in virtual reality form to a headset-wearing collector.

If you take this out, it’s not the same. Performance is about the relationship with the audience – this is our electricity. I don’t think that performance should adapt to coronavirus.

The show, she points out, will be on for two and a half months.

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