Marina Abramovic Rhythm 0 Work Jun 2026

"I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility." On the table were 72 objects categorized into "pleasure" and "pain". Pleasure Items: Rose, feather, honey, perfume, bread, wine. Pain/Danger Items: Scissors, knives, whips, chains, a scalpel, and a with one bullet. The Progression of the Performance

Initially, the audience was timid. People were polite, almost gentle. A man turned her around to face different directions. A woman gave her a glass of water. Another placed the rose in her hand. Someone wrapped her coat around her shoulders. There was laughter and nervous whispering. The audience was testing boundaries, but carefully. marina abramovic rhythm 0

The performance demonstrated a clear escalation: no one started with violence. The first person to cut her clothing did so with laughter; the next cut more aggressively. This mimicked the “foot-in-the-door” phenomenon of social psychology: small transgressions normalize larger ones. Without a stopping mechanism (police, artist’s refusal, gallery intervention), the group’s moral compass drifted toward maximum cruelty. "I am the object

Marina Abramović performed at the Galleria Studio Morra in Naples, Italy. This six-hour performance remains one of the most significant and chilling experiments in the history of performance art, testing the boundaries of human vulnerability and the ethics of social responsibility. The Setup: Objects of Pleasure and Pain A man turned her around to face different directions