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In what would become her most famous performance till date, Marina Abramovic offers her body completely to the audience. She uses her own body as in the other works as well as a medium, a canvas for art. She stands in the room with a table which has around seventy two objects varying from needles, grapes, knives, chains and even a loaded gun. A sign on the wall gives permission to the audience to use the object in any way they want.

Although the whole event starts peacefully by the end of the six hour performance it gets violent, people tear down her clothes, slice her with razors poke her with thorns. The violence increases to an extent where someone points a loaded gun at her head which was then wrestled down by another audience member.

The issue here that Marina Abramovic is trying to talk about is that of feminism. She is trying to show the pain women go through everyday without any reason of their own and just because they are of a different gender. She shows how vulnerable people are when they are left to do what ever they want to do. Abramovic believes that what happened at the performance would have been different if the artist would have been a man instead of a woman. (demaria).