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Marina Abramović: "Rhythm 0."
In 1974, Marina Abramović staged a performance in Naples that still resonates today: "Rhythm 0."
At the Galleria Morra, she placed 72 objects on a table – flowers, honey, wine, bread, feathers, chains, scissors, knives, whips, and even a gun with a single bullet – and told the audience:
“For six hours, you can do whatever you want to me. I will not resist.”
At first, people approached gently: offering flowers, light touches, small gestures of care.
Slowly, things changed. They tore her clothes, cut her skin with rose thorns. Someone picked up the gun, and one person even tried to load it. Others attempted to intervene, creating tension in the room.
The performance lasted from 8 PM to 2 AM. When Abramović finally moved and reclaimed her body, the audience fled – unable to meet the gaze of a living person, no longer a passive object.
This was more than art. It was a stark demonstration: when responsibility disappears, the veneer of civilization cracks.
Inside each of us coexist two possibilities – care and destruction.
The true choice is not what we CAN do, but what we DECIDE to do.
And today, in the hidden corridors of social media, the same experiment plays out every day. Behind screens, consequences vanish, and masks slip. We can mock, attack, manipulate – or we can act with care. The question remains the same: the power is there, but what we choose defines us.
At the Galleria Morra, she placed 72 objects on a table – flowers, honey, wine, bread, feathers, chains, scissors, knives, whips, and even a gun with a single bullet – and told the audience:
“For six hours, you can do whatever you want to me. I will not resist.”
At first, people approached gently: offering flowers, light touches, small gestures of care.
Slowly, things changed. They tore her clothes, cut her skin with rose thorns. Someone picked up the gun, and one person even tried to load it. Others attempted to intervene, creating tension in the room.
The performance lasted from 8 PM to 2 AM. When Abramović finally moved and reclaimed her body, the audience fled – unable to meet the gaze of a living person, no longer a passive object.
This was more than art. It was a stark demonstration: when responsibility disappears, the veneer of civilization cracks.
Inside each of us coexist two possibilities – care and destruction.
The true choice is not what we CAN do, but what we DECIDE to do.
And today, in the hidden corridors of social media, the same experiment plays out every day. Behind screens, consequences vanish, and masks slip. We can mock, attack, manipulate – or we can act with care. The question remains the same: the power is there, but what we choose defines us.
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wait what? is this for realz?
yep
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I wish you a happy future!
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