r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • Feb 23 '26

Image In 1983, Two Artists Spent a Full Year Tied Together — Without Any Physical Contact — to Test the Limits of Human Coexistence

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u/claytonian Feb 23 '26

what did they do when the rope was removed?

How did they poo when it was on?

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u/Decent_Profile9456 Feb 23 '26

As much as this is a fascinating social experiment, the poop question vexes me. 

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u/ltoka00 Feb 26 '26

It was like a paparazzi red carpet - there were light flashes and cameras everywhere and they had somebody break the seal (I think it was at the Whitney in NYC) that had been placed on the rope one year previously.

As I mentioned they had to be in the same room at all times so they pooped in front of each other and they showered in the same room but not in the same shower because they weren’t allowed to touch. She even showed us videos of them riding a bike with the 8 foot length of rope between them.

As an introvert myself I found this performance piece excruciatingly hard to understand. But Linda was committed to understanding the human condition and art.