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The studio environment provided what social psychologists call deindividuation . In a crowd, individual conscience is submerged. The men who cut her clothing would never do so alone. The group provided moral absolution: “I didn’t do it; we did it.”

After six hours, when Marina Abramović walked toward her audience, they ran. They ran not because they were afraid of her, but because they were afraid of themselves . She had become a mirror. In her passivity, she forced them to see their own capacity for evil, their own cowardice, their own complicity. rhythm 0

Drawing from Abramović’s retrospective accounts (notably her memoir Walk Through Walls ) and contemporary documentation, the performance unfolded in three distinct psychological acts. The group provided moral absolution: “I didn’t do

Because the sign said “I take full responsibility,” the audience interpreted this as a legal and ethical release. Each act of violence was small, incremental. Cutting a button off a shirt is not murder. Holding a rose is not violence. But over six hours, the accumulation of small cruelties produced a catastrophic whole. No single person felt responsible for the final state of her body. In her passivity, she forced them to see