“Marina Abramovic on Rhythm 0 (1974).” Vimeo. Uploaded by Marina Abramovic Institute, Thursday August 8, 2013, 4:08 AM EST, https://vimeo.com/71952791. Accessed Thursday, April 25, 2019.
Point 3
Artists subvert the objectification of women through challenging the audience to become aware of the their own inherent desire to objectify the female body. What exactly is objectification theory? As Szymanski states, “Objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) postulates that many women are sexually objectified and treated as an object to be valued for its use by others. SO occurs when a woman’s body or body parts are singled out and separated from her as a person and she is viewed primarily as a physical object of male sexual desire.” (Szymanski, 7-8). Marina Abramovic is an example of an artist that worked to expose this objectification theory through challenging the audience to recognize their own internalized desire to objectify. She opened an exhibit in 1974 called Rhythm 0, in which she placed 72 objects on a table, and stood in the middle of the room, with the instructions, “I am an object. You can do whatever you want to do with me”. Through allowing the pub...
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