Artist Blasts Jay Z: 'I'm Very Pissed'

Serbian performance artist Marina Abramović has blasted rapper Jay Z in a new interview regarding her collaboration with the hip hop star in 2013.

The musician performed his song Picasso Baby for six hours at New York's Pace Gallery in front of celebrities and fans for the film clip after he was inspired by Abramović's 2010 performance, The Artist Is Present in which she sat completely still and silent on a chair for 736 hours.

However, speaking to Spike Art Magazine, Abramović claims she was used by Jay Z, who she believes had no interest in a mutual benefit saying: "I'm very pissed about this".

"The day before, he came to my office and I gave him an entire power point presentation and said: okay, you can help me, because I really need help to build this thing. Then he just completely used me. And that wasn’t fair."

She said that the one condition she had for Jay Z to use her work was that he would: "help my institute — which he didn't."

"...In the end it was only a one-way transaction. I will never do it again, that I can say. Never. I was really naive in this kind of world."

"It was really new to me, and I had no idea that this would happen. It’s so cruel, it’s incredible."

The 68-year-old performer collaborated with pop star Lady Gaga in the same year, in which Gaga practised one of Abramović's methods.

However Abramović says it is a different story because Gaga: "has done great work for me".

"Just by having 45 million followers, she brought all these young kids into my public."

Abramović will return to Australia for the first time in seventeen years next month, for her latest performance, Marina Abramović: In Residence'. 

She will travel to Sydney in support of the Kaldor Public Art Projects and she can be seen from June 24-July 5.