But Why Aren’t People Rushing To Buy My Art?
Because I know you heathens are all starved of high culture, here are edited highlights of Shannon Cochrane and Márcio Carvalho performing their colossal work Untitled at the 2013 Miami Performance International Festival. For those who may be confounded by the profundity of the piece, a handy walk-through guide is available here. Said guide points out that the performance will encourage among onlookers “a deeper level of critical thought.” Of the many ruminations that will doubtless be inspired is the following:
After seeing someone wrap their head in meat twice, does it still hold the same weight as it did the first time?
The guide notes, rather earnestly, that the first attempt, by Mr Carvalho – to envelop his head in bread, string, and assorted meat products – prompted more amusement from the tiny audience than the subsequent repetition of it by Ms Cochrane. This is presented as an invitation to “a fundamental shift in paradigm” and some allegedly profound insight into gender politics. Or, how “different actions are read on different bodies.” Our artistic deep thinkers are seemingly unaware of the concepts of novelty and diminishing returns.
“This usage of time” is, we’re told, “an interesting one.” So brace yourselves.
Yes, I know. You’ve been rendered giddy by those shifting paradigms.
So for all these years attending end of season footy trips, all we were doing was performance art? Sandwiches across faces, drinking raw eggs, eating regurgitated food? All this was performance art? Do I and my mates get backpayed?
Alas Ann Coulter has cancelled.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/26/berkeley-local-police-preparing-massive-riot-mean-protest-tomorrow-coulter-speech/
Untitled
The boundless creativity carries over into the nomenclature.
There is another way of wrapping your head in meat, one that doesn’t require an innocent animal to die for your art, although it does require more, er, artistic flexibility.
And I would consider paying real money to see that. One time.
What strikes me as interesting are two aspects.
1) This is psychologically behaving like toddlers, so strikes me as reversion to toddler behaviour. It makes me wonder if their political understandings are toddler-like as well.
2) Others here have said this but this is also grossly narcissistic, attention-seeking behaviour. Which makes one wonder about the psychological health of these people.
grossly narcissistic, attention-seeking behaviour.
I think what grates – or grimly amuses, depending on mood – is the wearying combination of banality and intellectual pretense, a default in such circles. It’s the Dunning-Kruger vanity of it – a desperate, unconvincing pantomime of being clever and insightful, while offering only the most feeble and generic verbal flummery, and while showing no discernible talent or aptitude for aesthetics. As if such vacuous preening tat were good enough for the likes of us.
Impostors gonna impost, I suppose.
I presume this is what you meant, Hopp Sing:
Although it’s already metaphorically in evidence.
Ah, you’ve saved me the price of admission, PiperPaul. Thanks!
“a handy walk-through guide is available here.”
I’m sorry but my eyes continue to render that URL as “the pretense”.
You are very good, I would like to have you in plaster to put you in my house. I think you could bring my mansion to higher level.
Oh boy, I read “Indeed, such is its artistic and intellectual immensity, the piece you’re about to witness “invites a fundamental shift of paradigm.”” as
Indeed, such is its AUTISTIC and intellectual immensity, the piece you’re about to witness “invites a fundamental shift of paradigm.”
Imagine the disappointment…
Artistic directions
You laugh, but that literally happened to me the last time I visited the National Gallery in Ottawa. In the modern art wing there’s a black cube in the middle of the floor in a gallery with no other benches or resting seats. And the whole Gallery is furnished in Ikea stark anyway.
You laugh, but . . .
A pair of glasses . . . .