 Don't worry, we won't just go silent for seven minutes. After the event, Marina Abramovich reflected on how it had gone. I was terrified. If you fail, then you fail. But what if you don't take risks? But if you don't take risks, you're not going anywhere. You always repeat the same story over and over again. It was a complete silence. I mean, nobody screamed anything. I really tried to put every molecule of energy in every cell of my being to the death.