As we ended our lecture today by conversing about our early impressions of site specific performance, some fascinating points regarding the practices of the subject were addressed. One particular debate caught my attention, as a member of my group was talking to another one of our peers in regards to stripping people down to their bare essentials in an attempt to discover if there is more underneath, or if there is only a blank canvas. This relates to a certain practitioner that introduced me to site specific, who is regarded by some as the Grandmother of performance art, Marina Abramovic. Her infamous works such as ‘Imponderabilia’, ‘Rhythm 2’, ‘Rhythm 0’, and one of her more recent pieces ‘The Artist is Present’ elicit some unique reactions from her audience members. In ‘Rhythm 0’ Abramovic was able to invoke violent reactions, from people cutting her to trying to shoot her. Whereas ‘The Artist is Present’ caused more emotional outbursts such as crying or even proposing to Abramovic. In this respect Abramovic is a great source of inspiration to me as my group is very interested in finding out our audience’s reaction to the questionable ethics of our piece, and we hope to strike as much of an emotional cord as Abramovic has in her work.