What hints? There were 72 different objects, and a person who allowed spectators to become active participants, how is that instigating any particular situation? People could have just idly stand by, if that's what they wanted to.
The choice to hold the piece through the night for such a long time further goads the audience.
Basically, she was blatantly setting up the audience for this reaction. Repeat the same experiment in the middle of the day for an hour without putting a gun and knife on the table and you'll see a very different result.
EDIT: really, it's a piece of art about how it's very easy to manipulate an audience
EDIT 2: another downvote for not liking the same piece of art as you. Please grow a pair of balls.
Yeah, if you change the conditions you get different results.
> she was blatantly setting up the audience for this reaction
I agree that the reaction was predictable. I disagree that it detracts from the experiment/performance. In fact it's the opposite - if the reaction is random then the experiment is pointless - if the reaction is predictable - the experiment tells you something about human nature.
Why? Anyone seriously harming her would have committed a crime and get jailed.
Even if it was done via remotely operated robots via some privacy-proof Tor network, so the participants could be absolutely sure not to be punished for their crime, and someone did seriously harm her, what did it accomplish?
Not much, I'd say. Some people acting cruel when they can get away with it is expected behavior, just look at any kindergarten, not to mention the history books.
My point is, most folks think the expected behaviour was the unexpected behaviour. I think it’s the other way around.
Hardly told us anything new tho, so trivial result as such. Water is still wet.
Quite gutsy of her tho, I'll give her that.
Please grow some balls yourself and accept that not everyone has to have the same opinion and use of the downvote as you.
That sure is one interesting way of seeing it. Another way of seeing it is "Just because something is available, doesn't mean you have to exploit/use it".
If you could, with 100% security, steal without getting caught, would you?
> The choice to hold the piece through the night for such a long time further goads the audience.
People have the option to say "Nah, I'm tired, lets go home" instead of staying there if they're tired. But I'm guessing they wanted to see how it ended, so they stuck around.
In the end, people had options, and some people chose options many would consider "less good".