We are all homo sapiens, we are educated, educated and do not break the law and respect moral standards. On the other hand, we live in a society where treating the private space of other people is not impossible. So what would happen if in a few moments we would allow people to do what they wanted with our bodies without being condemned?
Serbian artist Marina Abramovi? performed an experiment named "The Rhythm 0" in Naples, 1974. The idea was so: She allowed all the people to do what they wanted with her body for 6 hours.
Marina Abramovi? stood, while the audience was free to do what he wanted with it, using 1 of the 72 items on the table: rose, feather, perfume, honey, bread, grapes, wine, scissors, scissors, metal strips and a pistol with a bullet inside.
At first people were wary; embraced and donated flowers. But when they saw that she did not react and did not protest, they started to go further. They cut off their hair, their clothes, and even their skin. People were becoming more and more aggressive.
In the end, just before the end of the 6-hour performance, a man took the gun and headed it around the artist's head, causing turmoil among the crowd he was following.
"I wanted to show that even ordinary and healthy people would mentally do terrible and violent things if they could," she said.
"Rhythm 0" (Rhythm 0) is considered as the most difficult challenge of the Serbian artist's career, which during her career has examined the relationship between the performer and the audience, the boundaries of body and mind, painstaking.
