Marni Kotak gave the performance of her life when she gave birth to baby Ajax in a New York City art gallery turned home birthing centre recently. Now they're back.
"It's exactly how I wanted it to be," Kotak said.
"Most of the people hung around for hours holding the baby, talking about the experience together and getting food and other supplies that we needed" until she went home.
The 36-year-old performance artist delivered the healthy four kilogram baby boy at the Microscope Gallery on October 25 in a performance she described as the "highest form of art".
The birth was the climax to an installation that began on October 8. It saw Kotak talking to visitors in a bedroom setting surrounded by her most treasured objects: Her grandmother's bed, where baby Ajax was conceived; a bright green chair in which she was rocked as a baby; videos and photos of her other performance pieces, including re-enactments of her grandfather's funeral and her own birth.
