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To: Jamestown1630
In 1974, artist Marina Abramovic performed a work entitled "Rhythm O" in which "she permitted a roomful of spectators in a Naples gallery to abuse her at their will for six hours, using instruments of pain and pleasure that had been placed on a table for their convenience. By the third hour, her clothes had been cut from her body with razor blades, her skin slashed; a loaded gun held to her head finally caused a fight between her tormentors, bringing the proceeding to an unnerving halt."

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68 posted on 11/05/2016 5:23:03 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKIM!)
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To: Fred Nerks

This stuff is going the same way sex has gone in all of the ‘arts’ - it’s becoming laughably banal. These are supposed to be grown-up people, for goodness sake. They’re like tittering kids playing games that they flatter themselves will shock.


79 posted on 11/05/2016 7:57:08 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, If you can keep it.")
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