Performance art is an art form that is difficult for people to understand to this day.
As an art form that began in the 1950s and 1960s, performance art swept the world, and although performance artists mostly acted strangely, this art form still influenced the thinking and understanding of many people.
Klein, now recognized worldwide as the originator of performance art, jumped down from the second floor of a cottage with open arms for such an art.
Klein called this "work" "Free Fall", and the price of completing the work was a fall on one of his legs.
There was once a woman who was more "fierce" than this man, and in order to express her art, she completed the craziest experiment and made unattainable works.
She is Marina Abramovich, known as one of the greatest performance artists of the 20th century. Marina is revered as the "Mother of Performance Art". The price this woman paid for performance art made the world tremble in its hearts.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" > the shackles of childhood</h1>
Born in 1946 in a military home in Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, Marina received a rigorous education from an early age.
In the eyes of her parents, as a child, she must listen to her parents, so from an early age Marina grew up in the "shackles" given by her parents.
Since her parents were both soldiers, Marina heard commands every time she communicated with her parents, rather than the kind words of her usual parents.
If she did not fulfill her parents' orders or requests, Marina would be beaten and scolded by her parents. Thus, Marina's childhood was gray.
Not only her parents, but even her grandmother, who had lived with her, did not make her happy.
Marina's grandmother was a devout religious believer who lived a daily religious life of rigid superstition.
Little Marina, who longs for a free life, endures the oppression of this environment all day long.
Growing up in such a repressive environment, Marina became a free, wild artist instead of becoming an autistic conservative.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > bottomed out</h1>
As an adult, Marina was admitted to the art school in the capital and completed postgraduate studies there.
A few years after graduation, Marina traveled to Amsterdam to perform, where she met her soul mate, Ouray, who would later be known as the "father of performance art," with whom she soon married.
For the sake of her lover and to get rid of her family, young Marina chose to live here forever.
Marina's parents could never have imagined that their strictly educated daughter would one day become a performance artist, even revered by the world as the "mother of performance art", and made many "works" that shocked the art world and even the world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="7" > artist's breakup</h1>
Marina and her husband are both performance artists, but their artistic concepts are very different, and over time, irreconcilable contradictions arise between the two.
What exacerbates the contradiction between the two is the infidelity of the husband, which deepens the rift between the two like a catalyst. In the end, the duo chose to break up with the art world.
The two were in a relationship for twelve years, and they were very reluctant to leave each other, so they decided to go on a breakup trip.
In 1988, they came to the Great Wall of China, and the two agreed to cross China on foot and walk toward each other. Marina set off from Shanhaiguan in the east and walked west, while Ulay set off from Jiayuguan in the west and headed east.
The two men in a foreign country kept walking alone, and during the trip, they never contacted each other, so they didn't know how far each other had gone or how well they were.
But as if they were sure to meet again, the two walked two thousand kilometers and finally met again at Erlang Mountain in the middle of the Great Wall.
Instead of screaming with excitement, the two embraced each other silently. After this, the two fulfilled their promise and chose to break up completely.
During these three months, both of them have been wondering, meditating, and finally realizing during the journey, and when they finally meet, both of them have also been relieved, which will be the best memories left between them.
The famous performance art "Lover's Great Wall" is a record of the story between the two, the closing performance of this decisive moment.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" > crazy imagination</h1>
During Marina's artistic career, she performed many inexplicably crazy performances. The first performance that impressed the art world was in Edinburgh in 1973.
During that performance, Marina prepared 20 different knives and sat quietly on the stage. People wondered what Marina was going to do with these knives, and looked at her one by one with their necks outstretched.
Suddenly, Marina stabbed a knife into her finger slit, followed by a second, a third. In this process, the slightest carelessness, the knife will pierce the skin and flesh, causing severe pain. But Marina did not pause, but chose to keep inserting the knife in.
In the end, 20 knives were inserted into the plank from the finger slit in turn, and Marina's hand became a blur of blood and flesh, which was very frightening. But Marina continued her performance, and she picked up the knife and began a new round of penetration.
This "self-harming" performance successfully made everyone remember her, and since then, Marina has continued to explore in this direction.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="11" > tick the demons out of your heart</h1>
Marina's performance art has gone a long way on the road of human exploration, and in order to explore human nature, Marina has made a series of self-harming acts in front of the public, which seems thrilling.
What she pursues is to test human nature, to test the bottom line of human nature, and to outline the demons in people's hearts.
So Marina held the craziest human nature experiment, which was tantamount to releasing a beast and making people more aware of the evil side of human nature.
Marina's experiment went like this: she injected herself with an anesthetic so that she could be paralyzed for up to 6 hours.
On the table next to her, 72 kinds of props were placed, including daily necessities such as roses and honey, but also dangerous props such as leather whips, knives, and even guns.
Marina promised the audience that within six hours they could do anything to themselves with props, and that she wouldn't hold anyone accountable after the fact.
People were initially suspicious of Marina's performance, couldn't believe Marina's crazy thoughts, so no one did anything to her.
As time passed, finally a man stepped forward, walked up to Marina, and made the first move. The man didn't make too much of an outrageous move, just scribbled on Marina's face with lipstick and wrote on it.
Marina did not resist in any way.
People saw That Marina stand still and began to believe in Marina's promises, and more and more people became bold.
The men walked up to Marina, and someone took the scissors and cut off Marina's blouse, revealing her upper body, followed by someone painting on her upper body.
Some viewers even took nude photos of Marina, and some even took a knife on the table and cut Marina's skin.
As time went on, the audience became bolder, the evil in their hearts was more and more released, and their atrocities against Marina became more and more cruel.
One spectator even inserted a thorny rose into Marina's knife-stabbed abdomen.
Without the shackles of morality, this group of viewers released the demons in their hearts in a closed environment, becoming a mob, and committing violence against Marina, who had no power to fight back.
The closest Marina came to Death was when a mob pointed a loaded gun at Marina's head and put it in her mouth.
In the end, because of the obstruction of the people who were still sane next to him, the man did not pull the trigger, such a dangerous move made the thugs present sober up a little, but after this, the thugs continued their destruction.
The violence of the thugs lasted for six hours, and all of them were faithfully recorded by the camera, making the people who watched the video stunned, as if they had seen the scene of hell.
This experiment warns that this is the consequence of the complete release of the evil of human nature, and that human nature must not be tested at any time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="14" > thought-provoking work</h1>
During the experiment, Marina was unable to move because of the anesthetic, and could only watch her body being destroyed by various actions and attacked by humiliated eyes.
At the end of the experiment, Marina was infinitely humiliated, and her tears fell at the end of the experiment, not knowing whether it was shame, fear, or disappointment.
Marina remained motionless, glancing at the thugs with her eyes.
And those who had insulted Marina in the six hours seemed to have regained their senses and bowed their heads and left, and no one dared to look into Marina's eyes and expression.
Marina did not feel severe pain because of the anesthetic, but her desperate eyes told the world that her soul was severely traumatized.
The work is called Rhythm Zero, and in a public interview, Marina replied that her thoughts about the experiment were that you should never leave all the decisions to the public, or you would not be far from death.
In this cruel form, Marina poignantly warns people that human nature needs to be constrained by morality and law, otherwise human nature will be a beast that tramples on all the achievements of human society.
It is Marina's various performances like this that deepen people's thinking about human nature and social relations.
Her performance provides an example for the study of these fields, which has profoundly influenced the development of human society.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="16" makes sense > any art form</h1>
Since the development of human society, the exploration of human nature and human beings has never stopped, and the accompanying art and philosophy may feel unfathomable or meaningless.
But performance art masters like Marina have taught people that any art form makes sense.
When people gradually can't understand today's various arts, they will recall the classic works left by these masters and get inspiration for the development of art.
Understanding Marina, the world will understand human nature more deeply, understand performance art, and the world will reflect more deeply on human nature.