Audience, Performer, Sadism

[SaintElsewhere]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_0.2C_1974

 

So I noticed a discussion on reddit and found the above link very interesting. Don't worry it's a short read. Thoughts?

[Rick Horton]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Abramovi%C4%87#Rhythm_0.2C_1974

 

So I noticed a discussion on reddit and found the above link very interesting. Don't worry it's a short read. Thoughts?

 

I'm wondering what would happen if somebody stabbed her to death in a show. Hmmm.... 

[suomipoi]

I watched this video: Remote control that is very much related to what you are describing there.

Basicly if you put people in control of other people with no change of being caught it's likely that it will end badly.  A related movie to that: Das experiment.

Pretty sick stuff gotta admit.

[empyblessing]

This is really interesting. I wonder how the audience was selected and what difference it would make it, say, the audience was all toddlers. 

[SaintElsewhere]

The first thing I thought of after reading this was a book I had read about children and robots. The book detailed how children are learning to think of artificial beings as people. It had lots of dialogue with the kids, asking them things like "What does Kismet/Furby think about?" "Is Furby real?" He got some really weird answers. But one of the disturbing things was that some of the kids would attack the robots, try to hurt them, hold Furby upside down while he cried. Also, the kids seemed to project onto the robots, These kids were in the minority, and there was some anecdotal evidence they came from "troubled" homes.

 

I think when someone doesn't react, seems not to defend themselves, it becomes easier to think of them as an object.

[SaintElsewhere]

Watched that Remote Control thing last night. That was fucked up.