Rhythm !link!: Marina Abramović

To understand Marina Abramović’s rhythm is to understand that performance art, for her, is a discipline akin to a sport or a spiritual practice. The rhythm is the method by which she conquers fear. In the Rhythm series, she established that the body is the only truth, and that by pushing its rhythms to the breaking point—whether through drugs, danger, or duration—she could touch something essential about the human condition.

We are all performing Rhythm 0 right now. Every time you post a photo, you hand the audience 72 tools. You give them the rose and the scalpel. You beg them to look, to comment, to judge. And sometimes, the crowd holds the gun. marina abramović rhythm

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. To understand Marina Abramović’s rhythm is to understand

What do you think? Is Rhythm 0 a masterpiece of trust or a study in nihilism? Let me know in the comments below. We are all performing Rhythm 0 right now