{"id":9324,"date":"2020-09-23T15:36:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T22:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/?p=9324"},"modified":"2022-01-11T14:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:45:37","slug":"the-art-of-asking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/2020\/09\/23\/the-art-of-asking\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate in vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 141 this week we talked about performer Amanda Palmer&#8217;s Ted Talk\u2014The Art of Asking. Aiblin commented on the trust required to allow an audience to interact with her naked body. This immediately reminded me of <strong>MARINA ABRAMOVI\u0106<\/strong>&#8216;s 1974 endurance art performance piece Rhythm 0. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marina Abramovic on performing &#039;Rhythm 0&#039; 1974\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kijKz3JzoD4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2014\/may\/12\/marina-abramovic-ready-to-die-serpentine-gallery-512-hours#:~:text=In%201974%2C%20Marina%20Abramovi%C4%87%20did,any%20way%20they%20saw%20fit.\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2014\/may\/12\/marina-abramovic-ready-to-die-serpentine-gallery-512-hours#:~:text=In%201974%2C%20Marina%20Abramovi%C4%87%20did,any%20way%20they%20saw%20fit.\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I was ready to die.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><cite>Marina Abramovi\u0107, performance artist<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Rhythm 0<\/strong><\/em>&nbsp;(1974) was a six-hour work of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Performance_art\">performance art<\/a>&nbsp;by Serbian artist&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87\">Marina Abramovi\u0107<\/a>&nbsp;in Studio Morra,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naples\">Naples<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhythm_0#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The work involved Abramovi\u0107 standing still while the audience was invited to do to her whatever they wished, using one of 72 objects she had placed on a table. These included a rose, feather, perfume, honey, bread, grapes, wine, scissors, a scalpel, nails, a metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhythm_0#cite_note-Abramovic01:00mins-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhythm_0#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no separate stages. Abramovi\u0107 and the visitors stood in the same space, making it clear that the latter were part of the work.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhythm_0#cite_note-4\">[4]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;The purpose of the piece, she said, was to find out how far the public would go: &#8220;What is the public about and what are they going to do in this kind of situation?&#8221;<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhythm_0#cite_note-Abramovic00:00mins-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Wikipaedia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A side note on trust and vulnerability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7154,"featured_media":9325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-141-survey-of-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9324\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/judysnaydon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}