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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 (8pm–2am.) Studio Morra, Naples

  • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
    2301·
    1 year ago

    As Abramović 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.”

    I swear so many people are actual psychopaths and just good at hiding it.

    • Shialac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      993·
      1 year ago

      A lot of people aren’t even good at hiding it, their traits are just seen as virtues in our modern capitalist society

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      46·
      1 year ago

      “After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation.”

      Sounds like the Internet in a nutshell

      • Lmaydev@programming.devEnglish
        22·
        1 year ago

        Yeah it seemed the audience divided into attackers and protectors.

        Genuinely a very interesting story.

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      1 year ago

      What would you even do? If I saw this as an advertised event, I wouldn’t go. Neither participating or spectating sounds very interesting. Only psychopaths are going to show up.

      • DeejUnfazed@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This sums it up for me. An invitation can be open to everyone, but the activity they’re being invited to will determine what sort of people show up. When I read, “Come and do whatever you like to an unresisting human who will sit still for six hours,” I immediately turn away–not just because I’m not interested in “doing whatever I like” to a person, but because I don’t want to be in a room with the crowd of people that I imagine would want to do whatever they like to a person.