We Should Be Thanking Them For Their Brilliance

If further proof of aesthetic genius is needed, I’ve managed to track down video of Ms Wang collaborating with Shizu Homma on a “guerrilla performance piece” on a bridge in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The length of said recording, a mighty 24 minutes, is necessary to convey the magnitude and seriousness of the work in question. Brace yourselves.

No, don’t laugh.

16 Replies to “We Should Be Thanking Them For Their Brilliance”

  1. Skipped through it but did note that passersby seemed to be trying to avoid eye contact

  2. I’m reminded of the habit of some English taxpayers/show-goers several years ago at some public arts performances “shame…”, “boo….”, “put your clothes back on…”. I think that if more performance artists like this were met with laughter, we’d have less performance art.
    The risk is that they could be dangerously unbalanced mental cases who would attack, and then there’s the trouble of blood tests to ensure they weren’t rabid after they bite you…. on second thought, maybe it’s not worth the risk.

  3. I Hope they never go camping. Either that or their tent came without instructions.

  4. Aww bless the poor dears, this is probably the best they can muster.
    Art that requires actual skill, craft, and imagination is beyond them, so they do what they can.

  5. Aand they weren’t even naked …
    You may not care for modern painting or sculpture, but for sheer mindless boredom modern free dance can’t be beaten.
    I sat through an evening of this once. The audience, mostly arts-typesl laughed appreciatively, with not at the spectacle.
    Total frauds,

  6. After five minutes of staring at the deck of a bridge, to be relieved by thirty seconds of staring at someone’s broad ass,I found myself wishing one of the joggers had stepped on the ”artist”, hard.
    Please tell me this person gets NO public funding for this !

  7. Every village has its idiot, but Cambridge really took the ball and ran with it.

  8. Every village has its idiot, but Cambridge really took the ball and ran with it.

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