Marina Abramović
Performance artist
Twenty-one grams of energy goes into the universe.
What happens when we die?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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What has been your biggest disappointment?
Failure & regret
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What scares you about getting older?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring late-stage question in The Guardian Q&A, with materially different answers on publisher-hosted pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
We become fertiliser.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 51 →You reach a certain point in life and suddenly know a lot of dead people, and I’ve noticed you don’t stop getting to know people who are dead. Those relationships continue and I like that.
The worms get to feast.
Albert Hammond Jr.
Musician
No. I mean, it depends on how you look at it. In the sense that we all have a piece of cosmic dust in us from the beginning – The Big Bang – then yes. But no, I don’t believe in heaven or hell.
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View profile →Arrogance and narcissism.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Not being a professional footballer.
Every time I play tennis I come back with a fresh injury.
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