I went to an Abramovic exhibition at Albertina in Vienna in February and it was pretty impressive and came away pretty impressed. Performance art is not something I was or am very familiar with, but these performances evoke some genuinely interesting reactions from the visitors.

And she did some pretty crazy things too. Once she swapped places with a hooker in Amsterdam where the hooker got to take her place at an award show and she took her shift on the streets. Then there was that performance where visitors could do what they wanted to her with a bunch of objects in the room, which had to be stopped because it was getting too violent.

Some of her performances I would consider weird, but enough of them are quite impressive feats of willpower and make strong statements.

At the end of the exhibition was a table with a ton of rice and lentils. You were invited to put on earcovers and count the grains. Counting grains is one of the techniques Abramovic developed to withstand discomfort for long periods of time. I did actually sit down and counted grains for like 15 minutes and it quickly became like a meditation. Anyway, if you have the chance, I highly recommend it.

That being said, it still wreaks of “CEO Speak.”

I think you mean reeks, which means to stink, having a foul odor.