The countless lenses focus on her naked form, prepped to capture all angles of her body, as she holds one still pose and patiently waits for further instruction. Every camera goes off in unison like lightning. The scene is immediately jarring: A global icon, whose career has been closely documented by cameras, sometimes against her will, and whose art has frequently centered on the violence of paparazzi culture, submitting herself to the same technology that's made — and challenged — her for the past 10 years. She calls for her longtime manager, Bobby Campbell , to play a song off her sixth studio album, and asks him to turn it up: "Louder, please. It's the only song played all day, and she requests for it to be queued back to back.

Gaga showed up to her performance in an oversized smock dress and ethereal looking white makeup a Halloween costume, perhaps? The Poker Face singer clearly had no regrets about her show's shocking end, since directly after her performance she tweeted, "Had an amazing night tonight at G-A-Y in London, after all these years you continue to inspire me. Can't wait for X-Factor tomorrow night. Let's take a peek at her fully-clothed toward the beginning of her song below, shall we? What do you think of Lady Gaga's on stage antics?

Lady Gaga has never been shy about showing off her body. And Marina Abramovic has never had a problem getting performance-art-weird in front of a room of strangers. Put these two things together and what do you get? Lady Gaga howling some kind of bird call as she poses naked in a field.