The crowd goes silent for seven minutes
If there’s one thing the Glastonbury Festival doesn’t do well, it’s silence.
But that changed on Friday evening when performance artist Marina Abramovic led a seven-minute silence from the festival’s main stage.
The 420 seconds of silence was conceived as a “public intervention” to reflect on conflict, violence and peace.
“There are wars, there is famine, there is protest, there is killing,” Abramovic said.
“Here, we will try to do something different.
“We can all together give unconditional love to each other. [It is] the only way to change the world.”
Thousands of festival goers were asked to close their eyes and put their hands on a neighbour’s shoulder.
On stage, 77-year-old Abramovic stretched out her arms to reveal a dress designed in the shape of the CND symbol.
CND stands for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.







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