Spider-Man’s Unwell Cousin
Because I know you love it, here’s more “guerrilla art” on a bridge. Or more specifically, an “infiltration in public space.” This time the venue is Pier 66 at the 2011 Fountain New York Art Fair, where Canadian performance artist Martine Viale thrills and captivates passers-by, armed only with a carrier bag of bobbins and a head wrapped in yarn. The powerful climax is rather special.
A triumph, I think you’ll agree.
Ms Viale regards her body as “a place of research” and her “artistic practice” is, needless to say, terribly intellectual, indeed profound, focussing as it does “on ‘process-action’ and the corporeality of space and time that allow for simultaneous multi-dimensional developments.”
Ms Viale’s other, no less mighty works include Intra Muros 1, highlights of which can be seen here, Elongation, a “physically demanding” work that involved stepping from one bowl of blue paint to the next, and which, for one reviewer, “evoked a metaphysical cloud of unknowing,” and Ma Interval (Tel Aviv), in which our fearlessly transgressive artist wrapped wool around some bus station benches and then stood motionless for over an hour, presumably waiting for applause and recognition of her talent.
profound, focussing as it does “on ‘process-action’ and the corporeality of space and time that allow for simultaneous multi-dimensional developments.”
What the FUCK is THAT meant to be, for a pile of goboldygook shite?
What the FUCK is THAT meant to be, for a pile of goboldygook shite?
It’s just the postmodern version of bullshit bingo.
You can rearrange it any which way, and it still means absolutely nothing, e.g. “multi-dimensional developments and ‘process-action’ that allow for simultaneous corporeality and focussing on space and time”.
>What the FUCK is THAT meant to be
Someone who likes the idea that they’re as clever and inventive as Einstein, but just is, in reality, cursed with Dunning Kruger.
Someone should introduce her to E Harmony.
A fitting “climax” would have been her jumping off the bridge in the path of a tugboat. They have really big propellers, you see.
Now if she had an open can of tuna,every alley cat in the area could have had a part in this and she might have had some funding from PETA,starving artiste and all that rot ,you know…….Any idea what the waif in the white outfit was supposed to represent?
I see your obscure art peformance, and raise it:
http://www.gay.com/gaynet/man-plans-to-have-sex-with-different-guy-every-day-for-a-year-for-art
It’s art because he’s not that good looking? Umm.
Mr. Rowe, how did you….. never mind…
@David, Glad she is finally getting the attention she craves.
The 36-year-old Russian born, Berlin raised artist says he hopes his performance piece, which he is currently calling “Save the Date,” will challenge ideas of sexuality and homosexuality in the age of dating apps.
How does behaving like a stereotypical promiscuous gay man “challenge” anything at all?
(H)e’ll use hook-up apps and sites like Gay.com, GayRomeo, Gaydar, Scruff and Grindr to turn traditional spaces like supermarkets and motorways into places where humans connect by having sex in them.
Maybe the humans who use those “traditional spaces” will be just too busy doing basic stuff like shopping or going somewhere else; you know, using those “spaces” for their intended purposes, so they will probably miss the point and just be offended.
“Mummy, what are those two men doing?”
“Why dear, they’re exposing our decadent and hypocritical bourgeois sensibilities and lack of empathy for each other by having sex next to the chiller cabinets”.
[Tannoy announcement]: *ding dong* “Staff member- clean-up in aisle 7”.
“I would go to [the park] every night and have sex with guys…until 5 o’clock, 6 o’clock in the morning,” he told Mic.com. “And I was always … I felt very bad. I was crying all the time. I am always sad after these kind of meetings.”
Well don’t do it, then.
And if you must, I’d suggest avoiding the traditional space currently known as the M6, especially in Staffordshire during peak hours. It’s bad enough as it is without someone engaging in homosexual coitus on the hard (*snigger*) shoulder.
How does behaving like a stereotypical promiscuous gay man “challenge” anything at all?
I think you’ve given this more thought than Mr Badasyan has.
“Why dear, they’re exposing our decadent and hypocritical bourgeois sensibilities and lack of empathy for each other by having sex next to the chiller cabinets”.
[Tannoy announcement]: *ding dong* “Staff member- clean-up in aisle 7”.
Heh.
Well done.
Oh, somewhat On topic given the bit of drift, just now spotted Robyn Urback: Protesters fail to shut down men’s issues lecture, celebrate anyway
Campus security was called in to mitigate the disruption, and the event was moved to another location on campus. The protesters ostensibly then went home, or possibly convened elsewhere to celebrate their insurrection. Either way, the lecture continued.
Ooooh, just hate it when event coordination continues to coordinate an event, even through and in spite of situational kerfluffles . . . . . .
Hal,
By the protesters’ later account, however, their rebellion was akin to confronting and conquering proponents of “misogynist” messaging. (The event was actually about the struggles men and fathers face in family court, but that doesn’t really matter).
What occurs to me about these arrogant little tools – besides their mental uniformity and their belief that the campus belongs to them and is theirs to disrupt – is that their places could be taken by students who actually want to learn something. There must be thousands of much smarter, more honest people who would eagerly use the opportunity these obnoxious parasites are squandering.
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Reminds me of a Dennis Miller line…to paraphrase,
“A video of a kitten playing with a a ball of yarn is only entertaining if kitty accidentally strangles itself.”