Marina's self portrait performance - STOP cyberbullying

WAYS OF SEEING 

• But the essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed. 
• If you buy a painting you buy also the look of the thing it represents. 
• And the history of the tradition, as it is usually taught, teaches us that art prospers if enough individuals in society have a love of art.

cyberbullying is harmful 

                                                        Marina Abramović- Rhythm 10

The following performance was created to reflect a socio-political issue we face. Cyberbullying is easy and affordable since is only by paying the internet bill. Teenagers and kids are the most human that are affected by this bullying. Even celebrities go through cyberbullying, got their feelings hurt just because people think they have the right to. They are hidden behind their screens and say whatever they would like to. Since suicide is the most leading cause of death in the United States of America so I found it the harshest and heartbreaking for parents who lose their children due to bullying. 

            The main part of the performance is to show how some words can break a person heart and lead her to commit suicide in minutes. The first picture shows a normal girl posting a selfie on facebook, then surprising with a lot of hate comments from people who should be her friends, cried and decided to commit suicide because she felt ugly and shouldn’t be living with herself looks like that. so performance expresses the self-identity by making a person express himself to show an issue that affects him, expressing yourself in performance to point up an issue is the best way to make people feel about it and then to help in solving it such as the above performance, I expressed myself as a teenager that got cyberbully leading myself to commit suicide. Also, a performance makes more sense than a photographs and paintings because one picture won't make you feel what is going in in a short time of period or what could happens, you only see that moment but in a performance you see a story leading you to feel the pain in the issue and put yourself in it, therefore, you will feel that. you could help to stop it.
        This performance was inspired by Marina Abramović who used her body as a medium to explore her physical and emotional limits to show the self-infliction of pain such in her rhythm 10 when she was holdings knives and stabbing each knife over and over until she cuts herself showing that you either repeat the mistakes or cancel them out. I used the same idea to represent my issue by using my own body and objects to present a huge problem we face every day on social media. One of the quotes that inspired me was “to indoctrinate boys into the rules of Patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feeling”. Simply to make people listen to you, just make them feel the pain of the issue like seeing a happy person who commit suicide because of bullying so they feel bad and never support bullying. Another quote is, “She urged viewers to disregard their gender, race or other defining societal factors and instead connect with the humanity they share with others” so disregard the person in the picture, her look and her body and instead connect with the pain she felt and what she went through. Also, “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak” is showing how performance art will have an impact on people’s thinking and could help with an issue to be resolved. Seeing a story could help in understanding the issue and start working on it to solve it.