This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which Abramović told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her. She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted. Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly. “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”
This performance married concept with physicality, endurance with empathy, complicity with loss of control and passivity with danger; pushing the boundaries of self-discovery, both of herself and her audience. It also marked her first engagements with time, stillness, energy, pain and the resulting heightened consciousness generated by long duration performance.The body has always been both her subject and medium. Exploring her physical and mental limits in works that deal with the simple actions of everyday life, she has withstood pain, exhaustion and danger in her quest for emotional and spiritual transformation.
Vito Hannibal Acconci, the American designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist, stated in an interview with Andrew Russet:" Marina’s earliest performances, 1973 approx, and her performances together with Ulay, were some of the best performances." (This interview was published in the Gallerist section of The Observer, Feb 18, 2014).
List of the 72 Objects on the Table: Gun | Bullet | Blue pain | Comb | Bell | Whip | Lipstick | Pocket Knife | Fork | Perfume | Spoon | Cotton | Flowers | Matches | Rose | Candle | Water | Scarf | Mirror | Drinking glass | Polaroid camera | Feather | Chains | Nails | Needle | Safety pin | Hairpin | Brush | Bandage| Red paint | White paint | Scissors | Pen | Book | Hat | Handkerchief | Sheet of white paper | Kitchen knife | Hammer | Saw | Piece of wood | Ax | Stick | Bone of lamb | Newspaper | Bread | Wine | Honey | Salt | Sugar | Soap | Cake | Metal pipe | Scalpel | Metal spear | Box of razor blades | Dish | Flute | Band aid | Alcohol | Medal | Coat | Shoes | Chair | Leather strings | Yarn | Wire | Sulfur | Grapes | Olive oil | Rosemary branch | Apple
'Rhythm 0' is an edition of three; the other editions are held by the Tate Collection and the Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana and the Artist's Proof by the Museum of Monte Negro. The work has been exhibited at SALT Galata, Istanbul and has travelled to the MoMA, New York and The Garage Center, Moscow for the touring exhibition 'The Artist is Present'.
Marina Abramovic (b.1946, Serbia)
Rhythm 0, 1974
Marina Abramović: The Cleaner
Louisiana MOMA, Denmark
06/17/2017 - 10/22/2017
Marina Abramović: The Cleaner
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
02/18/2017 - May 2017
Tate Switch House Opening Show
Tate Modern, London, UK
June 2016 - September 2016
Marina Abramovic: Rhythm 0, 1974
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
June 2014 - February 2015
Rhythm 0 Marina Abramović
SALT GALATA, Istanbul, Turkey
January 2014 - February 2014
Marina Abramovi?: Retrospective for Garage, Moscow
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
October 2011 - December 2011
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
March 2010 - May 2010
Photo documentation of performances Rhythm 10, 2, 5, 4, 0
Galerie Magers,Bonn, Germany
1977
Photo documentation of performances Rhythms 10, 2, 5, 4, 0
Galleria Diagramma, Milan, Italy
1975
Photo documentation of performances Rhythms 10, 2, 5, 4, 0
Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Germany
1975
Rhythms 10; 2; 5; 4; 0, photo documentation of performances
Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade,Serbia
1975
Rhythm 0
Morra Arte Studio, Naples, Italy
1974
Ana Sandoiu , Rhythm 0, Marina Abramović, and Freudian Ambivalence
Partially Examined Life (Online), October 4, 2016
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Samuel Spencer , New Tate Modern: 10 Works to See
Boulin Art Info (Online), June 2016
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Emily Weiner , Marina Abramovic: Rhythm 0, 1974
Time Out Israel (Online), 21 October 2014
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Get into Marina Abramovic’s Rhythm
TLV1 Radio (Online), 21 June 2014
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Galia Yahav, The Painted Priestess
Haaretz (Newspaper), June 2014
Dana Gillerman , A Copy for Collectors
Yediot Aharonot (Newspaper), June 2014
JOHN DOPPLER, Reality 0 — What We Can Learn From This Terrifying Experiment
(Online), MAY 22, 2014
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The LIfe and Death of Marina Abramovic
Time Out (Newspaper), 14/08/14
Rachel Wolff, Peddling Performance: From McNamara to Sehgal, Fresh Ways to Sell the Ephemeral
Blouin Artinfo (Online), November 11, 2013
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Kee Chang, Q&A With Marina Abramovic
Anthem (Online), June 15, 2012
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Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre, Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
(Other), 2012
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Sean O'Hagan, Interview: Marina Abramovic
The Guardian-The Observer (Newspaper), October 3, 2010
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Klaus Biesenbach et al., Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
MoMA (Catalogue), 2010
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Kristine Stiles, Klaus Biesenbach, Chrissie Iles, Marina Abramovic
Phaidon (Book), 2008
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Bojana Pejic with Thomas McEvilley & Toni Stoos, Marina Abramovic: Artist Body
Charta (Book), 1998
Pitchaya Sudbanthad, MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ Interview by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
Museo Magazine (Magazine), 1998
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artist origin
provenance
current location
exhibitions
multiple
Sergey Bratkov
—The Best
2010Olga Chernysheva
—Russian Museum
2005Olga Chernysheva
—March
2005Ivan Chuikov
—#20 from the series 'Postcard Fragments'
2006Ivan Chuikov
—#19 from the series 'Postcard Fragments'
2004Semyon Faibisovich
—Window of the Studio on Chaplygina Street (Triptych)
1993Petrit Halilaj
—I don’t have a Room, I don’t have a Mind. Nevermind!
2014Petrit Halilaj
—Several birds fly away when they understand it (Panel I-XII)
2013Petrit Halilaj
—Cleopatra (lamp)
2011-13Pravdoliub Ivanov
—Loaded
2010Almagul Menlibayeva
—Transoxiana Dreams
2010Almagul Menlibayeva
—Milk for Lambs
2010Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
—Meeting of Russian Cosmism through trans-avantgarde
2011Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov
—Elvises
2011Pavel Pepperstein
—The Dying Gangster
2010Pavel Pepperstein
—Untitled
2011Pavel Pepperstein
—Untitled (Vesjolye kartinki)
1991Maria Serebriakova
—Rowan Berry
2007Sergey Zarva
—From the series "Ogonyok"
2006Sergey Zarva
—From the series "Ogonyok"
2003
Rina Banerjee
—With breath Taking Consumption Her Commerce Ate While She Was Being Eaten
2008Eduardo Basualdo
—Sky
2013Buen Calubayan
—Instructions on Viewing the Landscape
2002-2015Sheba Chhachhi
—Neelkanth: Poison/Nectar
2000-2008Liu Chuang
—Love Stories - 4
2006-2014Adriano Costa
—Navio Negreiro
2013Adriano Costa
—When Attitudes Become Farm
2013Adriano Costa
—6 Monuments (Mão, Gala, Sahara, Human Rights, Israel, Waikiki)
2012Mounir Fatmi
—The Awakening Day
2011Vibha Galhotra
—Works in Progress
2008Weigang Gao
—Don’t Cry to Me
2011Os Gemeos
—Sem Titulo
2008-2010Guo Hongwei, Li Shurui, Yang Xinguang
—Rural Poetics
2015Shilpa Gupta
—I Keep Falling At You
2010Petrit Halilaj
—I don’t have a Room, I don’t have a Mind. Nevermind!
2014Petrit Halilaj
—Cleopatra (lamp)
2011-13An He
—Yoshiyoka Miho
2012Pravdoliub Ivanov
—Loaded
2010Geraldine Javier
—Hysteria
2011Li Jinghu
—Rainbow
2009Li Jinghu
—Stone Feces
2006Li Jinghu
—Counting Stars
2005Gabriel Kuri
—Waiting Spent (07)
2013Fang Lijun
—2005.1.10
2005Mateo López
—Caja Negra
2012Ohad Meromi
—Screen and Totem
2001Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
—Macho Alfa (Alpha male)
2012Marcelo Moscheta
—Anti-Gravitational Magnetic Pole 62 Stones
2009Paulo Nazareth
—Banana Market/ Art Market
2011Paulo Nazareth
—Vicious Circle
2011Maria Nepomuceno
—Sem título
2015Ernesto Neto
—Nave Nove
2000Donna Ong
—In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
2010Nicolas Paris
—History of expandable parts / Diagram of the interaction
2011Rashid Rana
—Desperately Seeking Paradise II
2011Duhirwe Rushemeza
—Return of the Makaned
2013Liu Shiyuan
—From “Happiness” to “Whatever”
2015Eliezer Sonnenschein
—Untitled
2010Manit Sriwanichpoom
—Pink Men vs. Pink Buddha
2007Erika Verzutti
—Mineral
2013Adrian Villar Rojas
—Before My Birth 3
2012Laura Vinci
—Lux Lisboa
2010Ai WeiWei
—Forever
2003Guan Xiao
—The Documentary: Geocentric Puncture
2012Haegue Yang
—Escaping Transparency
2011Dong Yuan
—Grandmother's House
2013Robert Zhao Renhui
—Eskimo Wolf Trap Often Quoted in Sermons
2013Zhao Zhao
—Waterfall
2013