Performance Art -

[Dark Mirror Hole]

What are your views on performance art? Do you think it's a genuine way to communicate certain ideas? or do you think it's pretentious nonsense for hacks?

Be sure to post vids of performance art that amuse you!

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[pinkyucat]

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[The Hunter]

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I saw someone replied to this thread, and it made me want to link that video, lol. Thanks for doing it for me.

 

[Golly]

While whether people like it or not is entirely subjective, I do think it's legitimate art. It's expression in some way or another, and whether it's being pretentious or not is almost a moot point in my opinion.

 

[The Hunter]

While whether people like it or not is entirely subjective, I do think it's legitimate art. It's expression in some way or another, and whether it's being pretentious or not is almost a moot point in my opinion.

I think a lot of things can qualify as art, but I don't get the point of that metallic dick video that pinkcat posted. Like, yeah, someone's trying to say something, but... what?

 

[Dark Mirror Hole]

I have trouble taking performance art seriously. There are some pretty awesome performers like Marina Abramovic who did some really brave and life threatening shows in the name of art.

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But for every "Rhythm O", there are about 20 "Interior Semiotics" that just spout the same cliche message and exist solely for shock value or 50 "Butterdance"s that are just there for the sake of being there.

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[The Hunter]

"Interior Semiotics"

Oh lord, oh nononononononononononononononono

 

[Dark Mirror Hole]

"Interior Semiotics"

Oh lord, oh nononononononononononononononono

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I'm a terrible human being.

 

[Trombonista]

It's probably a good thing I wasn't there to see it live, because just as she left I would have probably said "What the FUCK was that?"

And why "Interior Semiotics"? If anything, that poem spits in the face of semiotics.

 

[darkhorse816]

I took a performance art class my senior year of undergrad. It was a lot of fun. The piece I did for my final performance did have a theme around it. It wasn't random or anything.

 

[CatParty]

I think, performance art could be really interesting. It is pretty much a new medium with people as the art as opposed to a more traditional photo or painting or sculpture. Sure there is a lot of shit performance artists out there, but there's also a lot of shit traditional artists out there.

 

[darkhorse816]

There's this one performance artist known as "Reverend Billy" (he's not a real reverend). Bill was living in New York, and on Times Square they decided to erect the Disney Store. Billy was upset at all this commercialism. He thought New York was losing its spirit and started preaching in Times Square--about the sins of commercialism and consumerism. He then got a bunch of other people to wear choral robes, and they traveled across the states, going into Starbucks and other stores and "exorcising" the cash registers (he doesn't steal them, he puts his hands near them and shakes). Most of the customers actually enjoy it, from what I saw, they're like "who's this man with these people in robes?".

I saw a documentary about him and it seems really cool.

 

[Henry Bemis]

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[darkhorse816]

I want to post the performance I did December 2011 as part of my performance art class. I'm wearing a sports bra and bike shorts in it, and there's fake blood, and me making it look like I'm pulling candy out of a certain area. Are you guys comfortable seeing it?

 

[Dark Mirror Hole]

If it's not as traumatising as Interior Semiotics, then by all means!

 

[darkhorse816]

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My performance is around 35 minutes.

Sorry for the low quality.

This was the show my performance art class did during my senior year of college.

We all had to do several projects, and we chose what we liked and used it for the show.

Mine, which the class really enjoyed, was for our project about routine. We had to do a performance based off of routine, and I decided to do a certain, okay, I'm being gross here, extremely disgusting and unfair routine women have to go through each month. And I decided to sexualize it into a burlesque number. I had fake blood (the edible kind that takes like mint), I wore a sports bra and bike shorts, and taped tampons around them like tassels, and I made it look like I was pulling twizzlers out of my, you know. I would feed the twizzler to an audience member, and one of them, who was a cute art student, actually ate it. And I remember immediately after I performed and washed all the blood off, I typed on facebook "Who ate my twizzler?"

It was a big success! And performance art influenced my work.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

I came in to say that performance art is shit. Then I realized that people here do it. Hmm.

 

[Niachu]

I came in to say that performance art is shit. Then I realized that people here do it. Hmm.

Is art not subjective? If you'd like to explain your opinion, please do so.

 

[Tubular Monkey]

I came in to say that performance art is shit. Then I realized that people here do it. Hmm.

Is art not subjective? If you'd like to explain your opinion, please do so.

I agree that about any form of expression can be classified as art. I'm just a narrow minded dolt when it comes to performance art. Just never been a fan.

 

[Stratochu]

The interior semiotics video Dark Mirror Hole posted wasn't as bad as shoenice22 squirting lemon juice in his eyes and slapping himself out of his chair, which is painful to watch but induces laughs.