In 1974, in a room, a girl had tears in her eyes, her body was messy and scarred. But the spectators on the side turned a blind eye and continued to hurt her.
Someone cut off her clothes with scissors, someone stuck rose thorns on her stomach, and someone even pointed a loaded pistol at her mouth.
From 8 pm to 2 am, during this time, the girl just watched in shock what people did to her, with tears in her eyes, but unable to resist.
It wasnât until about 2 a.m. that she walked towards the audience with tears in her eyes. At this time, the audience kept backing away as if they had done something wrong, and finally ran away.
This scene is not a movie or a stage play, but a performance art created by the mother of performance art Marina Abramovic : " Rhythm 0".
Marina âs performance art
Marina was born in a military family. Her parents were both soldiers and had participated in the war. Marina spent her childhood under military-style management, and her food, clothing, housing, and transportation were all subject to strong restrictions and needed to be implemented according to a timetable.
Marinaâs mother, in particular, was even more demanding on her. Once she went against her parentsâ wishes, she would be beaten and scolded. The repressive family education put her under a lot of mental pressure. It was precisely because of this that when she grew up, Only then will her artistic works become so absurd, free and thought-provoking.
When she grew up, she met her boyfriend Ulay, who was also an artist. After meeting, she created a series of performance art that dealt with the concepts of gender, love, and time and space.
including "The Relationship of Time". In this work, their hair is tied into a braid, and the two people are inseparable, but with their backs to each other, without saying a word, for a full 17 hours.
There is another work that takes life as a bet. The two stood face to face. Ulay held a poisonous arrow with venom and aimed it at Marina's heart. The whole process lasted 4 minutes and 10 seconds. During this period, as long as Ulay Any mistake could result in Marina getting injured by an arrow or even dying.
And this performance art has also been interpreted as love. Love is to give your life to the other person. Even if the other person does not want to hurt you, a mistake will break you to pieces.
Although Marina is called the "Mother of Performance Art", it is "Rhythm 0" that really made her famous. In this performance art , she directly touched the darkest side of human nature.
"Rhythm 0"
Naples, Italy, at 8 o'clock in the evening, 72 items were placed on the table in a room, including roses, honey, scissors, daggers, crossbow, enema, and even an A pistol loaded with one bullet.
There is a notice in the room: the audience is allowed to choose any object on the table and have physical contact with the artist Marina AbramoviÄ.
At the same time, Marina Abramovic used anesthetics to anesthetize herself so that she could not resist, and also signed a disclaimer:
After the performance started, even if someone killed her, she would not bear any legal responsibility.
At the beginning of this performance art, the methods used by the audience were very gentle. Some people moved her gently, some kissed her, and some helped her tidy up her clothes.
During this period, people did not have any malicious intentions. Maybe they did not let go of their methods, maybe they were worried about Marina's revenge, or maybe they were not willing to be the first person to hurt Marina.
The crazy injury happened 2 hours after the performance. The audience finally confirmed that Marina would not resist, so they did more and more excessive things to her.
Some people scribbled on her face, some cut her clothes with scissors, and some scratched her with knives.
Some people tied her up with ropes, and some poured water on her head, and even Someone kissed her private parts.
Whatâs more, people took off her clothes completely, took nude photos of her and then asked her to hold them for display. Some people even took the opportunity to be obscene and had evil intentions.
What you need to know is that this performance art was carried out in an open space. There were many people in the room, but no one stopped the obvious harmful behavior, and the warriors we usually call "brave for justice" did not appear. , people hurt her unscrupulously and constantly challenged her physical and psychological bottom line.
Seeing that she had no resistance, the audience behaved crazily again and again, until someone picked up a gun on the table, loaded the bullet, pointed it at her mouth, and prepared to pull the trigger.
What you need to know is that Marina Abramovich has put herself under general anesthesia, unable to move and unable to escape; and she has also signed a disclaimer, which means that others may really shoot her.
Fortunately, someone in the crowd finally couldn't stand it anymore, and they struggled with the gun-wielding man, finally bringing this absurd but bizarre test of humanity to an end.
html Sixteen hours later, the anesthesia gradually wore off, and Marina regained consciousness. Her eyes scanned the surroundings and looked at the audience. However, the audience members who had just harmed and humiliated her ran away in fear one by one.
This performance art tests the ugliness of human nature and constantly challenges Marina's physical and psychological limits. Afterwards, she said:
If you leave the decision to the audience, they might really kill you.
This performance art has a great influence. It is a classic example of anthropology , ethics , group ecology, behavioral psychology , cognitive psychology and political sociology. It is also a "classic example" that people often discuss. "Nature is inherently good" is also one of the examples of "Nature is inherently evil".
The reason why this performance art is thought-provoking is that when a person loses all the ability to resist, then she is giving her life to the other person and letting others do whatever they want. In fact, people may really Kill her.
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