There’s also this intensely cerebral performance from 2012, in which Ms Arsem spends three hours lying face down in a gallery window while passers-by pass by, somehow ungripped by the profundity of the work.
There’s also this intensely cerebral performance from 2012, in which Ms Arsem spends three hours lying face down in a gallery window while passers-by pass by, somehow ungripped by the profundity of the work.
You made my breakfast smile 🙂
Gallagher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQdprOzBxwE
Always go with the original.
We used to call them loonies. Now they are “artistes”. Progress.
If she had tried to break the hammer with the fruit, or better yet, her forehead, now THAT I would have watched.
Sooooooooooo cerebral. Like the meditations of a cow.
I’m depressed.
For all these years I’ve missed the philosophical insights and profound social commentary embedded in Gallagher’s ground breaking performance art.
My bad. Dang!
“Look Mom – someone left an old hippy lying around, can we tale it home and make a skatboard ramp out of it?”
Apparently not all disturbed people are committed to the sixth floor.
With the help of an intern, I purchased quantities of beautiful ripe fruit
Says it all, doesn’t it?
And to think I used to believe those were just deadbeats passed out drunk on the park benches or under the Centre Street bridge. From now on I’ll refer to them as, “performance artists”.
She has one too many “m”s in her last name.
Wait until they do a “pooping on a police car” tribute to Occupy Wall Street.
I wonder if I’d get the intellectual property rights for having the idea?
http://waltherpragerandphilosophy1.blogspot.ro/2013/08/accelerating-journey-to-death.html
Meanwhile in Redmonton Alberta our ex-mayor Mandel now elected PC minister of health (lord give me strength) was building a nearly 1 billion dollar arts complex that would house artists and performers of all stripes. It would have enclosed walkways to protect the artist from the elements and provide safe passage to and from the several art theaters in the city.
What is it we elected these people for again?
Remember, you can make a difference. When you have confirmed that public art is happening, large doses of laughter and ridicule can help contain the breakout. Don’t forget to ask whether they are being paid from the public purse.
” I remind myself I am not obligated to entertain the viewers.” Mission accomplished.
Friendly Reminder: The economy was better in 2006 (GOP Control) than in 2014 (Democrat Control):
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/11/friendly-reminder-economy-was-better-in.html
It would be fun to print up some little signs: “Do Not Disturb. Performance Art in Progress.” With tiny print at the bottom: “Canada Council Grant #256-014”
Tape them to the wall above sleeping vagrants.
She’s not pretty enough to be a performance artist, if this wasn’t free, I’d be asking for a refund on that basis alone.
I too, will be celebrating the Republican victory in the midterm elections next tuesday. My glass will be hoisted above, and the nearest screw top dry red will fill me with joy. Possibly that latina gal at the local to me drinking hole will give me her knowing smile, nearly pushing me over the edge too.
*massive sigh*
“I too, will be celebrating the Republican victory in the midterm elections next Tuesday” Marc
If Republicans don’t win, the country will flat line. I am in Arizona ready for a quick exit back to Saskatchewan if Democrats
retain the Senate. Hope will be gone.
performance art, ain’t that wot you watch at the strip bars
Future generations will call this the ART BS Era.
We used to call that “taking a nap”.