“The artist`s last piece before leaving”
Marina Abramović reveals plans for her funeral
The Serbian performance artist wants to live the world with music and bright colours
The 68-year-old performance artist, in a speech held in Sydney this year, read out her manifesto, believing that “an artist should die consciously without fear” and that “the funeral is the artist’s last piece before leaving”.
Revealing her own funeral scenario, she said a script was written “so everything is done the way she wants”. She said: "I want to have three Marinas. Of course, one is real and two fake because you can't have three bodies. But I want these Marinas buried in the three cities which I've lived in the longest, which is Belgrade, Amsterdam and New York." If her wishes are executed properly, no one will know where her real corpse is buried.
The mourners would be asked not to dress in black, as she always does, but in bright colours and she wants her friend Antony Hegarty (the lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons) to sing “I Did it My Way.”
Abramović decided to plan her funeral after attending Susan Sontag’s 2004 funeral in Paris. “It was the saddest funeral I’ve been to in my life and she is one of the greatest human beings I have ever met,” Abramović said. “She was full of life, curious and just an incredible writer.”
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/01/marina-abramovic-reveals-plans-for-her-funeral-the-artists-last-piece 
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