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Marina Abramovic «Rhythm 10» | Rhythm 10, Part 2
Marina Abramovic, «Rhythm 10», 1973
Rhythm 10, Part 2 | Photograph: Dezan Poznanovic | © ; Marina Abramovic


 
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Categories: Action

Keywords: Body

Works by Marina Abramovic:

Art must be beautiful| Rhythm 5


Rome | Italy | 1 h
 

 Marina Abramovic
«Rhythm 10»

A first version of this performance involving 10 knives was presented at a festival in Edinburgh in 1973.

Preparation
I lay a sheet of white paper on the floor. I lay twenty knives of different shapes and sizes on the floor. I place two cassette recorders with microphones on the floor.

Performance
I switch on the first cassette recorder. I take the knife and plunge it, as fast as I can, into the flesh between the outstretched fingers of my left hand. After each cut, I change to a different knife. Once all the knives (all the rhythms) have been used, I rewind the tape. I listen to the recording of the first performance. I concentrate. I repeat the first part of the performance. I pick up the knives in the same sequence, adhere to the same rhythm and cut myself in the same places. In this performance, the mistakes of the past and those of the present are synchronous. I rewind the same tape and listen to the dual rhythm of the knives. I leave.

 

Marina Abramovic