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Marina Abramović's Rhythm 0

Rhythm 0 performance piece

According to Abramović, the task drove her body to its extremes. Initially, guests were kind, bringing her a flower or a kiss. In the crowd, a protective group formed in response to her abandonment of choice and the implicit breakdown of the human psyche. A battle broke out when a loaded weapon was pressed to her temple.

who was marina abramović?

She was raised in Yugoslavia by relatives who were Partisans during WWII. She studied art at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts in 1965.

who was marina abramović?

By 2005, she’d begun to ponder the future of performance art, a medium in which individual works typically had no life outside their initial staging.

an analysis of rhythm 0

vulnerability

The performer chooses to put her body at the disposal of the public. She reappropriates the vulnerable condition of women and empowers herself by offering her intentional assent.

VOLATILE RELATIONSHIP

The ambiguity of the relationship begins with the artist’s selection of items: some are for joy, while others are for agony and even death.

BEYOND THE PERFORMANCE

The performance highlights a larger cultural phenomenon with authority and its abuses, as well as a lack of accountability.

WHY IS THE PERFORMANCE PIECE SO IMPORTANT?

Meaning is produced in real-time by each individual — a lady standing silently in a museum may be perceived as gently meditating as she could be angrily silent.  The audience determines who she is, and that interpretation has nothing to do with the lady herself.

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