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[wikipe] Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia Search [ ] Search * Create account * Log in [ ] Personal tools * Create account * Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more * Contributions * Talk [ ] Contents move to sidebar hide * (Top) * 1Performance * 2Reception * 3See also * 4References * 5External links Toggle the table of contents [ ] Toggle the table of contents Rhythm 0 [ ] 15 languages * Cestina * Deutsch * Espanol * frsy * Francais * hangugeo * Bahasa Indonesia * Italiano * Magyar * mlyaallN * Ri Ben Yu * O`zbekcha / uzbekcha * Portugues * Srpski / srpski * Ukrayins'ka Edit links * Article * Talk [ ] English * Read * Edit * View history [ ] Tools Tools move to sidebar hide Actions * Read * Edit * View history General * What links here * Related changes * Upload file * Special pages * Permanent link * Page information * Get shortened URL * Cite this page * Wikidata item Print/export * Download as PDF * Printable version From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Work of performance art by Marina Abramovic [220px-Marina_Abramovi]Artist Marina Abramovic in 2012 Rhythm 0 was a six-hour work of performance art by Serbian artist Marina Abramovic in Naples in 1974.^[1] The work involved Abramovic standing still while the audience was invited to do to her whatever they wished, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table. These included a rose, feather, perfume, honey, bread, grapes, wine, scissors, a scalpel, nails, a metal bar, a gun, and a bullet.^[2]^[3] There were no separate stages. Abramovic and the visitors stood in the same space, making it clear that the latter were part of the work.^[4] The purpose of the piece, she said, was to find out how far the public would go: "What is the public about and what are they going to do in this kind of situation?"^[5] Performance[edit] Her instructions were Instructions: There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired. Performance. I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility. Duration: 6 hours (8 pm - 2 am).^[6] Abramovic said the work "pushed her body to the limits".^[5] Visitors were gentle to begin with, offering her a rose or a kiss.^[2] Art critic Thomas McEvilley, who was present, wrote: It began tamely. Someone turned her around. Someone thrust her arms into the air. Someone touched her somewhat intimately. The Neapolitan night began to heat up. In the third hour all her clothes were cut from her with razor blades. In the fourth hour the same blades began to explore her skin. Her throat was slashed so someone could suck her blood. Various minor sexual assaults were carried out on her body. She was so committed to the piece that she would not have resisted rape or murder. Faced with her abdication of will, with its implied collapse of human psychology, a protective group began to define itself in the audience. When a loaded gun was thrust to Marina's head and her own finger was being worked around the trigger, a fight broke out between the audience factions."^[7] As Abramovic described it later: "What I learned was that ... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you ... I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation."^[8] When the gallery announced the work was over, and Abramovic began to move again, she said the audience left, unable to face her as a person.^[9] Reception[edit] Rhythm 0 ranked ninth on a Complex list of the greatest works of performance art ever done.^[10] See also[edit] * Endurance art * The Death of The Artist * Empathy and Prostitution * Stanford prison experiment * Milgram experiment References[edit] 1. ^ Abramovic, Marina; Thompson, Chris; Weslien, Katarina (2006). "Pure Raw: Performance, Pedagogy, and (Re)presentation". PAJ. 28 (1): 29-50. JSTOR 4139995. 2. ^ ^a ^b "Marina Abramovic on Rhythm 0 (1974)", Marina Abramovic Institute, 2014, c. 01:00 mins. 3. ^ "Marina Abramovic. Rhythm 0. 1974", Museum of Modern Art. 4. ^ Frazer Ward, No Innocent Bystanders: Performance Art and Audience, University Press of New England, 2012, p. 125. 5. ^ ^a ^b Abramovic 2014, c. 00:00 mins. 6. ^ Ward 2012, p. 119. 7. ^ Ward 2012, p. 120. 8. ^ Daneri, 29; and 30 9. ^ Abramovic 2014, c. 01:45 mins. 10. ^ Eisinger, Dale (April 9, 2013). "The 25 Best Performance Art Pieces of All Time". Complex. Retrieved July 19, 2017. 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