"What I learned was that... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you."

At the end of the six hours, Abramović began to move. She walked toward the audience, many of whom were covered in her blood. The moment she stopped being a passive object and became an active human subject, the audience fled. They could not face the person they had just tortured. The gallery emptied in panic.

The audience's behavior transformed significantly over the six hours, documenting a terrifying shift in group psychology: