The crowd began to test the limits of the artist's passivity. Interactions became more aggressive and invasive. Some members of the audience used the scissors to cut her clothing, while others used the thorns of the rose or other sharp objects to mark her skin. The atmosphere in the room grew increasingly tense as the artist was treated less like a person and more like the object she had claimed to be. The Final Hour: Peak Tension

The objects were divided into categories representing various human interactions:

There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired.Performance.I am the object.During this period I take full responsibility.Duration: 6 hours (8 pm – 2 am). The 72 Objects

"What I learned was that if you leave it up to the public, they will kill you."

The archival records of Rhythm 0 document a significant shift in the audience's psychological state over the six-hour duration. The Early Hours: Gentle Explorations

: The performance began gently, with audience members offering her flowers or moving her. However, it gradually became aggressive; participants cut her clothes off, scratched her skin, and eventually, someone loaded the gun and pressed it against her head.

are iconic black-and-white still photographs, descriptive texts, audio clips, and a subsequent curated slideshow.

She noted that the violence escalated not because the individuals were monsters, but because of diffusion of responsibility . Each person thought, "I only cut her shirt—I didn't pull the trigger." But collectively, they brutalized her. The video is a masterclass in mob psychology: the nicer the objects were used first (rose, feather), the more permission the crowd felt to use the violent ones later.