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TIL of RHYTHM 0 : A performance art piece in which Marina Abramović stood still for six hours while the audience could do whatever they wanted to her.(aussie.zone)

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Instructions: There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired.

Performance: I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility.

Duration: 6 hours (8pm–2am.) Studio Morra, Naples

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a_mac_and_con@kbin.social
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I can’t believe how there wasn’t a single person in the audience who tried to stop anyone. Other than the person who took the gun away from her head. Still. No one stopped the people trying to injure or assault her. No one called anyone out? It’s sickening.

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GigglyBobble@kbin.social
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I can’t believe how there wasn’t a single person in the audience who tried to stop anyone

Yeah, that’s not what’s written in the Wikipedia article.

Faced with her abdication of will, with its implied collapse of human psychology, a protective group began to define itself in the audience. When a loaded gun was thrust to Marina’s head and her own finger was being worked around the trigger, a fight broke out between the audience factions.

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a_mac_and_con@kbin.social
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I should stop trying to read things when I haven’t slept.

Now I’m wondering why the entire audience fled when she finally moved. No one stuck around to ask if she needed help or anything?

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GBU_28@lemm.ee
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The group was already self selected for those interested in attending such a performance

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Bjornir@programming.dev
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It may be sickening, but it is what any human being would do, given the right circumstances. To be human is to be susceptible to do this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

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Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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but it is what any human being would do, given the right circumstances.

Bullshit. The experiment you linked isn’t even close to what this is:

They measured the willingness of study participants, 40 men in the age range of 20 to 50 from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts conflicting with their personal conscience.

Participants were led to believe that they were assisting an unrelated experiment, in which they had to administer electric shocks to a “learner”.

The people who violate the performer aren’t instructed, in any way, by an authority figure, and the act isn’t conflicting with their personal believe. They are psychopath.

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Bjornir@programming.dev
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She says she takes full responsibility for what happens at the beginning. This is a big part of the milgram experiment : the scientist takes responsibility for what happens and is an important part of what explains the behavior.

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_jonatan_@lemm.ee
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You should probably read the link you posted, because the results of the milgram experiment as touted by media is not really representative of what happened.

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Bjornir@programming.dev
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65% go up to the maximum “lethal” voltage

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RobertOwnageJunior@lemmy.world
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You just want to excuse your own bad behaviour.

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Bjornir@programming.dev
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???

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Can_you_change_your_username@kbin.social
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This is more bystander effect than submission to authority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

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