Kris Kelvin secured himself in the space capsule that would travel to the alien planet Solaris. (Good luck.) It was a performed blurring of identity: Lem’s Dr. Who she resembled was a younger Marina Abramović, black bangs concealing Gaga’s trademark eyes, and the voice in which she read the opening paragraphs of Solaris ranged like a radio signal between a semblance of Abramović’s Serbian accent and Gaga’s own Upper West Side, Italian-American, or whatever other signifier could be used in attempting to pin down the way she speaks. If you were wearing a blindfold, as I was at the beginning, you would not have seen Lady Gaga’s face and shoulders flash on the screen, looking fairly unlike the face and shoulders of an international pop star - no glitter or face paint, no wig, and barely a visible gaze. The first reader was shepherd-of-the-teenage-soul Lady Gaga.
The performance artist’s Skype connection, displayed on the theater screen, patched out. A couple of photographers began snapping pics of a movie theater full of blindfolded attendees. Organizers of the event, including Natalie Eilbert, founding editor of The Atlas Review, Dolan Morgan, contributing editor, and Siena Oristaglio, head of communications for the Marina Abramović Institute ( MAI), walked the aisles of the movie theater beneath the Wythe Hotel to hand out thin white strips of cloth. Just as he did not need to see to channel essential inner truth, Abramović said, so the attendees at the August 3 marathon reading of Stanisław Lem’s Solaris must don blindfolds. Why did he do this? His response was that he did not need to see her when finding his words. Whenever she asked him a question, he would close his eyes to answer. They met while she was traveling a remote mountainous region. WILLIAMSBURG - Marina Abramović shared an anecdote about a shepherd.
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