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“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

Marina Abramovich

(Source: andrewfishman)

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21/06/2013 EROS RAMAZZOTTI
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26/06/2013 FRANCO BATTIATO
28/06/2013 JOVANOTTI
30/06/2013 THE NATIONAL
01/07/2013 ANTONY AND THE JOHNSON
04/07/2013 IGGY POP
05/07/2013 MARIO BIONDI
05/07/2013 MAX GAZZE’
06/07/2013 MUSE
07/07/2013 LEONARD COHEN
07/07/2013 DIANA KRALL
09/07/2013 STING
10/07/2013 FRANCESCO DE GREGORI
10/07/2013 ARCTIC MONKEYS
11/07/2013 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
12/07/2013 MORCHEEBA
13/07/2013 MARK KNOPFLER
14/07/2013 THE SMASHING PUMPKINS
16/07/2013 NEGRAMARO
16/07/2013 ATOMS FOR PEACE
18/07/2013 CESARE CREMONINI
20/07/2013 DEPECHE MODE
22/07/2013 GEORGE BENSON
22/07/2013 DEEP PURPLE
23/07/2013 ALAN PARSONS PROJECT
23/07/2013 NICCOLO’ FABI
25/07/2013 ALEX BRITTI
25/07/2013 DANIELE SILVESTRI
26/07/2013 NEIL YOUNG
27/07/2013 CARLOS SANTANA
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