I have, of late, been starving you of artistic sustenance. Here, let me fix that with a big dollop of the stuff. Specifically, some “performance documentation” from Manhattan’s Grace Exhibition Space. The mighty talent featured in the following video is artist, educator and “community organiser” Alex Romania, whose work teeters on the edge of profundity, as will doubtless become clear, via juddering and convulsion, and the strategic deployment of 25 pounds of powdered cheese.

Come, sup ye at the teats of creativity.

 

Yes, I know. It’s a lot to take in.

As Mr Romania reveals during the subsequent ramble-cum-interview, the piece above is but part of an even more staggering trilogy. He is, we learn, “interested in exploring, like, substance.” When not “investigating bodies of cultural debris,” and being showered with atomised dairy products, Mr Romania teaches those less gifted than himself, at New York’s Centre For Performance Research, and other places of learning.

Should your inner being have been suitably moved, the Grace Exhibition Space is seeking “significant financial support.”

Update, via the comments:

Captain Nemo notes the resemblance with numerous children’s TV shows – Fun House, Tiswas and the like – in which “dumping food or gunge over someone’s head was de rigueur.” Well, yes. And it’s hard to see who, exactly, all this alleged transgression is aimed at. The handful of socially and mentally uniform poseurs who turn up, at least if it isn’t raining, or the general public that doesn’t care?

Consider this an open thread.

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