"[Meow]" "Hi, Marina Abramovic." "Nice to see you here." "You actually pronounced my name pretty well." "I've been working on it." "People are so confused with my name." "Ariel Levy, narrating:" "Marina Abramovic is the world's most famous performance artist." "Starting in the 1970s, her hypnotic and often disturbing work has explored Marina's own physical and mental limits and blurred the boundaries between performer and audience." "In 2010, she reached a milestone:" "her retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York entitled "The Artist is Present."" "Walk!" "Walk, please!" "Walk!" "Man:" "Walk, walk." "The exhibition debuted a piece in which Marina remained seated silently for seven hours a day for over two months, joined by one visitor at a time." "The show was a sensation, with the museum attracting 750,000 people during its run." "Now in her new show "Generator,"" "the artist is not necessarily present." "Let's go for it." "Marina, who for so long has made herself the center of attention, cannot be seen or heard by the people who experience the exhibition." "Marina:" "This kind of experience would be no way possible ten years ago because public was not ready, but now they're so tired of everything." "We're tired from electronics and tired from selfies and tired from the telephones and computers, so when you take all these things out and you put them into empty space and you blindfold them and put the headphones on the ears," "they-- they actually find themselves with themselves." "But even if I'm not present, people have a feeling that I'm there, which is strange." "Which I assume" " I mean, correct me if I'm wrong-- was part of what you were playing with, right?" "I mean, we go from from the huge MoMA show "The Artist is Present,"" "where part of what people are, you know, coming in droves to experience is they know they're going to have an encounter with you."