What did Marina Abramovic do with or to, Australian aborigines around 1979? The area they mostly reside is quite remote and, historically, people have gotten up to no good there quite regularly.

"Controversy

Abramović sparked controversy in August 2016 when passages from an upcoming memoir were released, in which - based on notes from her 1979 initial encounter with Australian Aborigines - she compares them to dinosaurs and comments that "they have big torsos (just one bad result of their encounter with Western civilisation is a high sugar diet that bloats their bodies) and sticklike legs." She responded to the controversy on Facebook, saying she had "the greatest respect for the Aborigine people, to whom [she] owed everything".