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Abramović said the work "pushed her body to the limits".<ref name=Abramovic00:00mins/> Visitors were gentle to begin with, offering her a rose or a kiss.<ref name=Abramovic01:00mins/> Art critic [[Thomas McEvilley]], who was present, wrote:
 
{{blockquote|It began tamely. Someone turned her around. Someone thrust her arms into the air. Someone touched her somewhat intimately. The Neapolitan night began to heat up. In the third hour all her clothes were cut from her with razor blades. In the fourth hour the same blades began to explore her skin. Her throat was slashed so [[Clinical vampirism|someone could suck her blood]]. Various minor sexual assaults were carried out on her body. She was so committed to the piece that she would not have resisted rape or murder. Faced with her abdication of will, with its implied collapse of human psychology, a protective group began to define itself in the audience. When a loaded gun was thrust to Marina's head and her own finger was being worked around the trigger, a fight broke out between the audience factions."<ref>Ward 2012, p. 120.</ref>}}
 
As Abramović described it later: "What I learned was that ... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you ... I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation."<ref>Daneri, 29; and 30</ref><ref>[https://vimeo.com/71952791 Abramović 2014], c. 01:45 mins.</ref>