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Marina Abramovic “Rhythm 0″

This artist stood for 6 hours, allowed people to do what they wanted [Photos]

Performance artist Marina Abramovic stood still for 6 hours, allowing people to do as they wished to her body for an experiment, revealing a gruesome side of humans. 

Unlike most performers, who maintain their distance from an audience, Yugoslavian artist Marina Abramovic prefers to maintain a more intimate relationship with hers. She invokes participation from her audience which is what she did in an experimental art piece called Rhythm 0. In her performance, Abramovic would stand motionless for six hours and to her side, was a table with 72 objects. The objects ranged from things like a feather, a rose to a knife and a gun with a single bullet. While she stood still, her audience did whatever they could to her body, using the objects from the table. However, the experiment took a darker turn real soon.

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