Marina Abramović is a performance artist who stood still for six hours to let people do what they wanted to her body. She lay 72 items on a table, ranging from a feather to a loaded pistol. The public could use these items as they wished on her. Marina Abramović accepted full responsibility for what happened to her.
Abramović’s social experiment is very interesting to me. She was cut on her neck with razors and sexually assaulted. Still, she managed to endure the 6 hours. It has shocked me how people could do these things to her when they knew that Abramović wouldn’t react.
From looking at Marina Abramović’s work, I feel that I need to research further into human studies on behaviour in order to work out what I am trying to solve in my sixty second film.
Bibliography
The Guardian (2014) Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/12/marina-abramovic-ready-to-die-serpentine-gallery-512-hours (Accessed: 01 January 2018).