An artist has said she was ‘ready to die’ after letting spectators do whatever they wanted to her for six hours.

Marina Abramović, who famously once put 72 objects on a table and let strangers use them on her body however they wanted, has said she was ready to end it all after her 1974 display.

The range of objects was vast, with things such as flowers and perfume to weapons.

At the beginning of the performance, the audience handed her the flowers or just spectated her as she stool still.

However, by the end of the six hours, her clothes had been removed and her skin had been cut.

At one point, during the performance piece, a fight broke out after a loaded gun was put to her head and her own finger was placed over the trigger.

Despite this extreme performance, she decided that she wanted to continue to create performance art.

During a performance in 2010, something happened that surprised her. During her performance, she sat at a table with an empty chair in front of her in the Museum of Modern Art in NYC and anyone could come and sit across from her.