A BLOW-UP DOLL ON CAMPUS INVOKING MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ'S RHYTHM 0 TO INVESTIGATE FEMALE OBJECTIFICATION.

Inspired by a performance piece from 1974, the author undertook to replicate the performance with an inflatable doll rather than the living body which had been the object of the original piece. Her purpose was to heighten the awareness of the college community of the way the female body is objectified and fragmented in the culture of the United States. She set up the piece at a central location on the campus of a mid-sized state university. This paper reports her findings through the lens of bodily fragmentation theory and suggests possible implications for future work in feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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