Performance Art
On Space Time Foam
This is an art installation in Milan, where you crawl with other museum patrons over a plastic surface. Lot of weird pics at the link.
But is that plastic suspended over a high well of emptiness, an atrium or courtyard, as it seems in the video? And guaranteed not to break?
Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 10, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Science, Europe
Documenta
I'm sorry I learned about the Documenta Art Festival only just now. The thirteenth one occured this past September, and there won't be another for five more years.We'll have to content ourselves with these videos till then.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Dec 06, 2012 -
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Category: Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Bombast, Bloviation and Pretentiousness, 1950s, Europe, Cacophony, Dissonance, White Noise and Other Sonic Assaults
Magus Maximus
Magus Maximus from Emanuel Strixner on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 05, 2012 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Magic and Illusions and Sleight of Hand, Performance Art, Cartoons
Everything Changes
Make up your mind! Or not!
Posted By: Paul - Tue Nov 06, 2012 -
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Category: Costumes and Masks, Fashion, Hair Styling, Music, Performance Art, Parody
Creative Destruction
"A short film inspired by EDWARD SCISSORHANDS..."
Curse your soul to hell, Tim Burton!
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 30, 2012 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Dance
Marcus Coates—the man who’s learned to be an animal
British artist Marcus Coates thinks Nature can help address the concerns of the urban poor. So he's trained himself to be an animal, so as to bring Nature to them. He goes to slums, gathers groups of the local residents, and then does a shamanistic trance thing in which he "journeys to the lower world" to seek the wisdom of animal spirits. He does this while wearing a deer's head and skin, and uttering grunts and cries. Sometimes he'll wear a horse's head, or a badger hat. More about him here and here. Check out the video to see him in action.
Posted By: Alex - Thu May 24, 2012 -
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Category: Animals, Art, Performance Art
Turner Prize 2012
It's that time of the year again, a favorite moment for all WU-vies. The shortlist for the UK Turner Prize is announced! We get to see a selection of the best and the brightest UK artists, those figures who contribute to humanity's glorious heritage of imperishable art that uplifts the soul and defines what it is to be human.
My personal fave this year is Lali Chetwynd. "She reworks iconic moments from cultural history in deliberately amateurish and improvisatory performances." Such as you see above.
Monet, eat your heart out!
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 02, 2012 -
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Category: Annoying Things, Art, Avant Garde, Performance Art, Science Fiction, Europe
Robot Bass Player
More info and another video to be found here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Apr 01, 2012 -
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Category: Inventions, Music, Technology, Performance Art, Europe
Subtle Body
"To the strains of Fila Brazilia's 'Subtle Body,' a video of consensual power exchange by an Icelandic rubber fetishist freely bound."
Warning: vinyl-swathed Icelandic butt is spanked.
My questions:
1) Did you folks spontaneously interrupt the meal seen upon the table, or is this punishment perhaps either an appetizer or dessert?
2) IN THE DINING ROOM?!? YOU'VE GOT YOUR S&M EQUIPMENT SET UP IN THE DINING ROOM!?!
Posted By: Paul - Mon Mar 05, 2012 -
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Category: Body, Performance Art, Europe
Sigalit Landau
S. Landau "DeadSee" by maneb40
This is the nude artist swimming in the Dead Sea with several bushels of watermelons.
Warning: minor artistic nudity a few pixels wide.
Artist's home page.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Nov 04, 2011 -
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Category: Art, Performance Art, Body, Food, Oceans and Maritime Pursuits
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