Abramović Rhythm ((top)): Marina

Long before she sat motionless for 736 hours at MOMA ( The Artist Is Present ), Abramović was a young, radical woman in Belgrade testing the physical limits of her own existence. Between 1973 and 1974, she produced a body of work that would irrevocably change the definition of performance art: .

Why? Abramović was interested in the "mistake" and the "consciousness of the moment." marina abramović rhythm

Abramović later said: "What I learned was that if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you." Fifty years later, the Rhythm series isn't just art history. It is a prophecy for the social media age. Long before she sat motionless for 736 hours

To understand modern art, you don’t start with a brush. You start with Abramović’s Rhythm 0 . But to get there, you have to walk through the fire. The series begins with knives. In Rhythm 10 , Abramović plays a dangerous game of Russian roulette—but with her fingers. She spreads her left hand on a white sheet of paper, holding a sharp knife in her right. She then stabs the knife between her fingers as fast as she can. Each time she cuts herself, she picks up a new knife and continues. Abramović was interested in the "mistake" and the