Marina Abramović Creates Art from Pain
Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
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Rhythm Zero: Art, Pain, and the Dark Side of Human Nature
In this chapter, they discuss Marina Abramović's performance art piece called Rhythm Zero, which she performed in 1974 in Naples. She explains that at the time, performance art was heavily criticized, so she decided to challenge those perceptions by creating this piece. She placed 72 objects on a table, including items for pleasure, pain, and torture, and gave the audience the freedom to use these objects on her for six hours, even allowing them to potentially kill her.
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