TRIGGER WARNING ⚠️ performance artist stood for 6 hours and let people do what they wanted to her body
In 1974, Marina Abramović did a terrifying experiment. At a gallery in her native Belgrade, Serbia, she laid out 72 items on a trestle table and invited the public to use them on her in any way they saw fit. Some of the items were benign; a feather boa, some olive oil, roses. Others were not. "I had a pistol with bullets in it, my dear. I was ready to die." At the end of six hours, she walked away, dripping with blood and tears, but alive. "How lucky I am," she says in her still heavy accent, and laughs.
Humanity is cruelest when presented with a passive victim, and that’s why would-be oppressors first seek to silence their targets.
If she came to America to do this same performance piece, would Americans do the same now?
Would her looks matter?
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