Marina Abramovic

Marina Abramovic has been an influential artist in performance art since the 1970's. She is Serbian and based in New York City. She was born in 1946. 

One of her most powerful pieces was Rhythm 0. This performance piece was 6 hours in 1974 in Naples. This let the audience interact with her. 72 items were placed on a table and the audience could do as they please with her and the objects. In an interview with Marina, 40 years later, she describes how terrifying the experience was from people carrying her body, and someone putting a loaded gun to her head. The object of the piece was to see how the audience interacted with her without her acting like a living person. 


http://www.complex.com/style/2014/01/marina-abramovic-reflects-on-rhythm-0