Abramović stands motionless for six hours in a gallery in Naples. A table beside her holds 72 objects: a feather, a rose, honey, a whip, a scalpel, a chain, a pistol with a single bullet. The instructions are simple: “I am the object. You are the free will.”
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Hours three and four are where the footage becomes unwatchable. The crowd splits into two factions: the aggressors and the enablers. You see her skin being cut with the scalpel. You see thorns from the rose pressed into her abdomen. Someone loads the gun and places it in her hand, pointing it at her own temple. A fight breaks out among the audience over whether to pull the trigger. Abramović stands motionless for six hours in a