In 1974, Marina Abramovic placed an assortment of items on a table. A rose, a gun, a knife, a feather, a pot of honey, a whip, and so on. Objects that could bring pleasure or pain. The audience was ...

Marina Abramović’s 1974 performance Rhythm 0 is one of those rare works that refuses to be politely filed under “art” or “provocation” alone. Staged at Studio Morra in Naples, it arrived out of an era ...

In 1974, Marina Abramović’s “Rhythm 0” pushed the bounds of performance art as it had been previously understood. While she had engaged in acts of violence against herself in past projects — including ...