This is Marina Abramovic, in one of her works stood still for 6 hours, and clarified that wouldn’t move no matter what you do. Placed on a table 72 objects, some were of pleasure, others of destruction, flowers, feathers, perfumes, a knife, a gun loaded. Invited people to use the items they want in all the ways I wanted.
Abramovic said: “first it was peaceful and shy, but quickly climbed to violence”.
" what I learned was that if you leave the decision to the public, they can kill you.
I felt raped, they cut off the clothes, they stuck me with thorns of rose in the stomach, aimed gun to the head, another came apart.
Created an atmosphere of aggression.
After 6 hours, I got up and started to walk among the public. People were, they couldn’t look me in the face. Escape to the confrontation " this work reveals something terrible about humanity.
Shows how fast a person can hurt you under favorable circumstances.
Shows how easy it is to dehumanize a person who does not fight, who does not defend himself.
It shows that if he provides the stage, the majority of “normal” people, apparently can become truly violent
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more of her works:
[SIZE=4]Rhythm 10, 1973[/SIZE]
In her first performance in Edinburgh 1973, Abramović explored elements of ritual and gesture. Making use of twenty knives and two tape recorders, the artist played the Russian game, in which rhythmic knife jabs are aimed between the splayed fingers of one’s hand. Each time she cut herself, she would pick up a new knife from the row of twenty she had set up, and record the operation. After cutting herself twenty times, she replayed the tape, listened to the sounds, and tried to repeat the same movements, attempting to replicate the mistakes, merging past and present. She set out to explore the physical and mental limitations of the body – the pain and the sounds of the stabbing; the double sounds from the history and the replication. With this piece, Abramović began to consider the state of consciousness of the performer. “Once you enter into the performance state you can push your body to do things you absolutely could never normally do.”
[SIZE=4]Rhythm 5, 1974
Rhythm 2, 1974
Rhythm 0, 1974
[SIZE=4]Cleaning The Mirror, 1995
Seven Easy Pieces, 2005[/SIZE]