Every single person runs for the exit. No one can look her in the eye. No one can face what they have done — or what they allowed to happen.
A man takes the chain and wraps it around her body. He pulls it tight. Then he locks it.
A photographer begins taking close-ups of her eyes, her mouth, her bare chest. No one stops him. No one stops anyone .
Someone sticks thorns from the rose stem into her stomach. Another person uses the scalpel to cut the skin of her neck and arms. They drink the blood.
In 1974, the Serbian artist Marina Abramović asked that question not with words, but with her own body. The result was a six-hour performance piece called Rhythm 0 — and it remains one of the most disturbing, essential works of art ever created.
Marina Abramović: 72 Objects (Museum of Modern Art, 2010) • The Artist Is Present (documentary, 2012)
Every single person runs for the exit. No one can look her in the eye. No one can face what they have done — or what they allowed to happen.
A man takes the chain and wraps it around her body. He pulls it tight. Then he locks it. rhythm 0: a slide show
A photographer begins taking close-ups of her eyes, her mouth, her bare chest. No one stops him. No one stops anyone . Every single person runs for the exit
Someone sticks thorns from the rose stem into her stomach. Another person uses the scalpel to cut the skin of her neck and arms. They drink the blood. A man takes the chain and wraps it around her body
In 1974, the Serbian artist Marina Abramović asked that question not with words, but with her own body. The result was a six-hour performance piece called Rhythm 0 — and it remains one of the most disturbing, essential works of art ever created.
Marina Abramović: 72 Objects (Museum of Modern Art, 2010) • The Artist Is Present (documentary, 2012)