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Domestic Violence - The Hidden war during COVID-19

The Serbian artist Marina Abramović performed a famous performance art known as the “Rhythm 0”. She invited the audience to do whatever they wished to do with her during the six hour performance using the 72 objects that were placed nearby while she stood still not reacting to anything. The objects included rose, feather, perfume, honey, bread, grapes, wine, scissors, a scalpel, nails, a metal bar, and a gun loaded with one bullet. She proclaimed that it is her responsibility for what will happen with her during the performance art. The purpose of the piece, she said, was to find out how far the public would go: “ What is the public about and what are they going to do in this kind of situation? ”[1]. According to the sources, it started tamely with people simply showing some intimacy and then started progressively became more violent as time passed which started with ripping of her clothes in third hour. In the fourth hour ,audience started to explore her body with blades to an extent