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. E .: Let's talk about your teaching career . Over the years you have taught in Paris , Hamburg , Berlin , Japan , and Braunschweig where they still have the "Marina Abramovic Class , " even though you left ten years ago . You give lectures throughout the world — from Australia to India , Tasmania , New Zealand , you name . you doing , , are long workshops in which you demand of the students a total way of life , including a strict schedule , food , rest , the whole lot . M . A .: Yes , but what I find really important is the part following this long workshop which I call "House Cleaning" — cleansing the whole body , putting its parts in this state of mind . ... ] . E .: Do you plan on doing it more often , training artists and the public ? M . A .: As I said before , I would like to start a school where we , performance artists , can learn , and the public can too ... This something that has never been addressed — teaching the want to meet the most important shaman in Laos . " That's how all started . So when we went there , she arranged a meeting with four shamans . In the end I chose one , and joined in a ceremony . It was a very heavy , six-hour ritual , and it involved the slow killing of a pig . It was a ritual intended to purify the spirits . For me it was a way to get in contact with the land . Then came to Laos again to see more , to meet the children , and then a third time —to realize the piece . I travel to work in other places , the most important thing is the give-and-take . I hate visiting as a tourist who takes something from the local culture without giving anything back . Every time , with the Aborigines or the Amazon Indians , and in Laos too , it was about a very fine balance between taking things and giving something back . With the children in Laos , it was very important to explain to the community and the families , and to the children themselves , what we were doing . At the Lessons on Emptiness a Happy I plastic weapons . I invited the entire community , the school principal , the teachers , and the families to see the shooting of the last scene : the children coming out of the house , burning the weapons , but these were plastic Chinese weapons , children ' s toy weapons . The children loved these weapons ...
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