“Rhythm 0 is probably one of her most famous and most important performances: it is also one of the most significant works in the history of performance art ever conducted. The work involved Abramović standing still while the audience was invited to do to her whatever they wished, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table. These included a rose, feather, perfume, honey, bread, grapes, wine, scissors, a scalpel, nails, a metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet. As Abramović described it later: "What I learned was that... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you” (Pereira, 2015, p. 1).
“The Rhythm 0 performance played out to chilling conclusions: it ceased when audience members grew too aggressive” (Spector, 2019, p. 1).
Abramović's performances are sad yet raise awareness in that they show how little society seems to value a woman.
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