Marina Abramović Plans to Stun Herself With 1 Million Volts

Marina Abramović's next performance art stunt will be electrifying, literally. As part of a major retrospective at London's Royal Academy of Arts, the 71-year-old artist will charge herself with one million volts in an attempt to blow out a candle with the electric charge absorbed on her fingertips. Abramović will be teaming up with arts and technology studio Factum Arte to bring the performance to life. According to The Times, the piece references the 19th-century Kirlian technique where high...