Innovator in resurgent genre visits Yale
Marina Abramovic decided to test her audience in a 1974 performance: she laid out 72 objects on the stage — some of pleasure, others of pain — and said she would not resist anything they tried to do to her. Among the objects were a revolver and a single bullet.
This piece of performance art, entitled “Rhythm 0,” remains after 35 years Abramovic’s best known work, an example of her willingness to surrender herself to her art, Yale School of Art Dean Robert Storr said. Storr introduced Abramovic’s public lecture at the School of Art Friday, and said Abramovic’s body of work has been...
