Marina Abramovic Rhythm 0 ❲2024❳

: This paper, published in the Journal of English Students (KICK) , analyzes how the performance challenges Immanuel Kant’s classical aesthetic frameworks of beauty and disinterested judgment.

The room in Naples was cold, filled with the scent of stale air and the nervous energy of seventy-two objects laid out on a long table. There were roses, honey, and wine; there were also scissors, nails, and a loaded pistol. marina abramovic rhythm 0

Initially, people were gentle: they gave her roses, kissed her. Within hours, the atmosphere shifted. Clothing was cut off, skin slashed with thorns, cuts made with a razor. Someone loaded the pistol and pressed it to her temple. Another visitor forced her hand to hold the gun. The violence escalated until a fight broke out among audience members—not to protect Abramović, but over who would use the gun. The piece ended when the gun was removed. : This paper, published in the Journal of

The audience panicked. They ran for the exits. They could not look her in the eye. As Abramovic later said in her memoir Walk Through Walls : “If you leave the decision to the public, you will be killed.” Initially, people were gentle: they gave her roses,