Slog - Comments on In/Visible Is Up: A Walking Sculpture That Will Talk to You, Maybe Lie to You http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that Around 1974, Kim Jones, a former painter and sometime sculptor, became a sculpture himself. He called it “Mudman,” and it meant him wearing a latticework of sticks on his back, and covering his body in mud and his head in pantyhose—but interacting with people more or less normally, which often, well, freaked them out. As Mudman, Jones walked the streets of Los Angeles and, later, New York. He gave performances that included smearing himself in his own shit while hacking at beer cans with a machete he got during his tour in Vietnam, and burning live rats to death,... Copyright 2008 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:30:27 -0800 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:12:33 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Touring Was it the war or the drugs or both?

]]> Touring http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827836 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827836 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:03:42 -0800 Comment by June Bee i like this photo better than Guy Debord on the phone pole in Waking Life.

I'm out for today. See ya guys "after Midnight, we gonna let it all hang out"
http://www.tullycraft.com/

]]> June Bee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827839 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827839 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:06:56 -0800 Comment by Greg I'm curious: what, exactly, distinguishes his 'performance art' from the symptoms of severe mental illness?

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827848 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827848 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:12:57 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 ha what a poser, fnarf was doing this in gold lame back in the day

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827871 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827871 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:34:49 -0800 Comment by Irena Greg, don't you find it compelling to think that what we, in our eagerness to pathologize, might call "severe mental illness" could be seen in a different way? I'm not saying Kim Jones is insane, but if he were, I would admire him for re-signifying his unique perspective as "art," and I certainly wouldn't dismiss him because of it.

And after listening to the podcast, I am convinced he's not insane, but I'm also thinking of something Salvadore Dali once said: "The only difference between me and an insane person is that I'm not insane."

]]> Irena http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827898 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827898 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:54:51 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe He's insane.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827951 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827951 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:45:11 -0800 Comment by The Avalanches That boy needs therapy.

]]> The Avalanches http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827955 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827955 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:48:52 -0800 Comment by ams This reminds me of that man in Sweden who goes to music festivals and throws poo at people. Has anyone else heard of him? My friend almost got hit by one of his flying turds. I heard at another event he actually went INTO the port'a potty!
Now the security people look out for him, but he now has poo disciples! Oh the poo man. How I fear you.

]]> ams http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827966 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827966 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:54:05 -0800 Comment by useful Is this guy available this Saturday morning?

]]> useful http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827981 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827981 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:07:46 -0800 Comment by Gurldoggie Have you heard about this recent performance art adventure?

On October 5, 2007 Kristin Lucas succeeded in legally changing her name from Kristin Sue Lucas to Kristin Sue Lucas.

In Alameda County Court, the presiding judge who granted the request said:

"So you have changed your name to exactly what it was before in the spirit of refreshing yourself as though you were a web page."

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827999 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c827999 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:28:22 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Talk to him? I don't want to come within a thousand yards of him. He belongs in a home.

And for the record, I have never smeared myself with shit nor set fire to any living thing (except myself a few times).

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828007 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828007 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:38:03 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 sorry for besmerching you, fnarf, i was talking about apearance of him on the poll, rather than the rest of his performance

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828027 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828027 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:52:42 -0800 Comment by artlover Coming up next: Nosehair art by Richard Lee!!

]]> artlover http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828369 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828369 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:20:03 -0800 Comment by Anne Problem is that things like Pride, Burning Man, Folsom, How Weird, Solstice and Bay to Breakers have made things like mudman completely mundane. I doubt it'll weird out a single person these days. Now when you see a naked guy covered in pink paint with a duck on his head, riding a unicycle downtown it's like, "whatever."

]]> Anne http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828538 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/10/invisible_is_up_a_walking_sculpture_that#c828538 Arts Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:12:33 -0800