"if you give the public freedom, they can kill you," - Rhythm 0

 "if you give the public freedom, they can kill you,"  - Rhythm 0

Rhythm 0

Rhythm 0, the chilling social experiment that exposed the darkest side of human behaviour in 1974.

Abramović set the terms simply and chillingly: for six hours she would stand motionless while the audience could use any of 72 objects laid out on a white-draped table. “I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility,” she instructed. The objects ranged from the innocuous to the dangerous, a rose, a hairbrush, a mirror, lipstick, a candle, a comb, a glass, and a gun with a bullet, a knife among them, the arrangement resembling an altar that invited choices both tender and brutal.

Maria Abramović’s

Marina Abramović's upbringing in post-war Yugoslavia was marked by privilege and strict control, with her parents being decorated WWII partisans and prominent figures in the communist government, leading to a secure but regimented childhood, heavily influenced by her religious grandmother and later her authoritarian mother.

Findings

Abramović called the Rhythms, performances that probed control in different forms. That interest came, she has explained bluntly, from the strictness of her upbringing.

The work is therefore not only a study in crowd psychology but also a searing commentary on misogyny and the particular vulnerabilities women face when placed in the role of “object.”


Also a public reckoning with what happens when spectators are given unchecked power over another person.

Closing Act

When Abramović finally moved, walking naked and wounded toward the crowd, she expected confrontation or compassion. Instead, the spectators scattered. “That I start walking, being by myself, walking to the audience you know, naked and with blood and tears in my eyes but they ran away. They literally ran away,” she recalled, an act that said as much about human cowardice as it did about cruelty.


Compiled by 

Ms Naresh kuwar 



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