NOT SAFE FOR WORK!
Logging into Facebook today a friends post caught my eye:
"Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries
to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art. Her
best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she
sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting
visitors to sit opposite her and make eye contact for as long as they
wanted. So many people began spontaneously crying across from her that
blogs and Facebook groups were set up for those people. Her bravest piece, however, is my favorite. 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."
- Humbert Humbert
The fact that majority of the people chose pain verses pleasure when they thought they wouldn't be
held responsible says a lot about human nature to me.
I commend her for her courage.
I commend her for her courage.
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