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# Lady Gaga Doing the Marina Abramović Method Is Satire, Right?
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/lady-gaga-doing-the-marina-abramovic-method-is-satire-right/
- Published: 2013-08-08T22:21:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:34:52.000Z
- Description: Lady Gaga has long been desperate for art world attention. Now, she's collaborating with the artists who has long been desperate for pop culture cred, Marina Abramović.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, Lady Gaga, Marina Abramovic, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

Lady Gaga has long been [desperate for art world attention](http://hyperallergic.com/5151/biesenbach-gaga-is-an-artist/). Now, she’s collaborating with the artist who has long been desperate for pop culture cred, Marina Abramović. This is a marriage made on the stoney shore of an upstate New York lake or crouching in the fetal position around a large crystal.

Behold the art world’s version of late Elvis, Marina Abramović, and Madonna 2.0, Lady Gaga, captured in the aloof stylings of a college art video.

[Gothamist](http://gothamist.com/2013/08/08/video%5Flady%5Fgaga%5Fgoes%5Fon%5Fupstate%5Fret.php?ref=hyperallergic.com) has made the video all the more palatable with the addition of a brilliantly appropriate soundtrack, “Yakety Sax”:

And the staff of TMZ does the best spoof so far (h/t [@godveveryone](https://twitter.com/godveveryone/status/365627756744151040?ref=hyperallergic.com)):