Artrages

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not kidding this actually matches my flat’s nails atm

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blue-crow:

the-mamishka:

resilientkate:

softgore:

“This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted. 

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut 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 public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances.”

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves. I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.”

this is why performance art is important

This always blows my mind, because I could and would never do anything horrible to someone like these people did to her. In fact, I would like to think that if I came across something like this and saw people abusing her, that I would confront them and stop them and sit there for six hours with her, guarding her from the abuse of others. Cause wtf people, what is wrong with you?!

I’m sure, though, that if you’d asked anyone in that room if they’d point a gun at the head of a helpless woman they’d have said no and they’d totally have meant it. Groupthink is scary as hell. I want to say the same thing, but I’ve never been in that situation, so I don’t know. I can’t tell you what I’d do with any kind of certainty. That’s what I love most about this piece.

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