Sublime

Because to me, we are each put on earth for a purpose, and we must each fulfill this purpose. Yes, I had won the Golden Lion at fifty—and created The House with the Ocean View at fifty-five, and Seven Easy Pieces at fifty-nine. And soon I would turn sixty, but I knew I still had a lot of work to do.

I just sit there for an indefinite amount of time, staring into the distance, while in voice-over, a woman sings the Yugoslavian national anthem from the time of Tito. Which, by the way, is now forbidden in ex-Yugoslavia

“I’m not interested in your face—I’m interested in your scars.” He was talking about the scars on my neck from Rhythm 0, on my hands from Rhythm 10, on my belly from Thomas Lips. I was so impressed by this idea—really almost jealous that I hadn’t thought of it myself—that Marco and I became

This was the first attempt at a format that would later form the basis of my institute and my Method.

At the time I was the only professor in Europe specializing in teaching performance. At first my field of action was restricted to art academies. But soon I would discover how to teach my methods to everybody.

During the final month, as this piece became one with life itself, I started to think intensely about the purpose of my existence. Eight hundred fifty thousand people in all had stood in the atrium, seventeen thousand on the final day alone. And I was there for everyone there, whether they sat with me or not. Suddenly, out of nowhere in the world,

RHYTHM 0 Instructions. There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired.

The first thing I did when I got to San Francisco was to announce a five-day fast for the students in my performance-art workshop, an exercise for improving willpower and concentration. As always, I participated. The second thing I did was to have a mad affair.

Building the abyss under the bridge is the task of the most advanced builders