Thursday, November 1, 2007
Performance Art
Performance art is ridiculous. As you can see from this video, it seems as though the entire purpose of performance art is to bring some sort of disruption out into the public -- for everyone to be forced into experiencing some sort of discomfort at your own hands. The fluxists and the dadaists try to justify it as being meaningful and self-satisfying, but I think it's just advanced forms of ADD manifesting in overactive imaginations. I mean -- honestly... why else besides that or drugs would someone cover their head in honey and gold leaf and explain to a dead rabbit in a low whisper what their drawings meant... I mean... seriously...
Seriously...
Doing the shadow activity with Niya was difficult because all I could do was laugh the whole time because I knew how ridiculous it looked / was.
The performance I made for class never made it up to youtube. I had one person stand on a chair while another person walked around that chair reciting the name of each immediate family member until they'd named them all. Then they would switch and keep doing so until someone forgot one of the names. It didn't work out that well, so I'm not upset that it's not on youtube. Here is Laure's though. I am the feet.
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