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News & ArtsThursday, August 12, 2010
Video of the Day Lunchtime Quickie: Yeah, Art!
Posted by Kelly O on Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:15 PM
This is art right? RIGHT? "Dirt Is All Around Us, Everything Is Shit". Man, right?! "ART!"
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I especially like the part at the end when somebody yells, "Yeah art!". Worst use of SpaghettiO's I've ever witnessed.
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An amazing hipster convention. I'm enjoying the rapt attention being given to her struggle to open a can.
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it seemed to me that as the "piece" continued, a lot of those expressions of rapt attention changed to incredulousness and even condescending amusement. We’re looking at a polite, if patronizing audience, who weren’t going to just walk out halfway through, laughing and farting in her general direction. This shows more about the performer than the audience—most, or at least a lot, of the people there seem to know this was shit.
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I liked it, and think it would have really been something to be in the room. That being said, I don't get any profound meaning, I don't feel it represents much about repression or anything like that. I like it as a visual performance; I like it because of the emotion she put into it, her courage in performing it and the effect it must have had on the people in the room.
She was obviously quite nervous about it, and I hope she is proud that it's spent a few days making the rounds online. Even if most people mock the performance, I doubt many of her peers can say they have created anything that has elicited such a response.
She was obviously quite nervous about it, and I hope she is proud that it's spent a few days making the rounds online. Even if most people mock the performance, I doubt many of her peers can say they have created anything that has elicited such a response.
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Fucking hipsters...isn't it bad enough that they all stand outside of Cobb and smoke?
One year's Scav list had an item where we had to fit as many hipsters as possible on one vent outside of Cobb Hall (UChicago quads).
One year's Scav list had an item where we had to fit as many hipsters as possible on one vent outside of Cobb Hall (UChicago quads).
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@7: The sentiment of "any attention, when it comes to art, is good attention" is as trite as the old adage "there's no such thing as bad publicity." I didn't even watch this video, I just hate celebrating attention for its own sake. When you say "I doubt many of her peers can say they have created anything that has elicited such a response," you are implying that visibility is the most valid barometer of artistic merit, which is incredibly short-sighted, not to mention damaging to the artists who hold themselves to a higher standard in forfeit of simple recognition.
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@12 - My thoughts were less "any attention is good attention" and more "if she hoped to elicit an emotional response from people, she has done just that". People thinking it is stupid is still a reaction, it is still causing people to watch it and pass it around (for a good 2 or 3 days now).
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Allow me to correct myself: It's been making the rounds for just over a week now.
Additionally, @12, I am not implying that "visibility is the most valid barometer of artistic merit", I am implying that it can be a measure of artistic merit. And I doubt one person's opinion expressed in a comment on slog is truly "damaging to the artists who hold themselves to a higher standard".
Additionally, @12, I am not implying that "visibility is the most valid barometer of artistic merit", I am implying that it can be a measure of artistic merit. And I doubt one person's opinion expressed in a comment on slog is truly "damaging to the artists who hold themselves to a higher standard".
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this could be straight from the 6th floor of cornish. what a self indulgent piece of utter nonsense. oh noes! my vagina has expired spaghetti o's on it. na-fa-ra-dun-derr.
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I'd love to sit with this artist and watch this video with her 5 years from now. Better yet, watch it with her 30 years from now with her teenage kid.
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I went to art school. I once had to listen to some girl's audio tapes of herself peeing. I can't decide if this was worse.
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I adore the girl in the audience with the short black hair, grinning like a loon through the entire thing. Her internal monologue and mine were surely the same: "Remember the bullshit performance-art scene in the 1999 teen movie She's All That? This is even funnier!"
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That girl is a total poseur for having that American Apparel tube top on under her t-shirt. Did Spaghetti Os come out of her vagina or was that just goo? I hear hipsters have a lot of STIs so I really hope that floor was properly cleaned after the show was over.
I have a crush on the peroxide punk girl who almost lost it when the herpes infested Spag Os started spurting forth.
I have a crush on the peroxide punk girl who almost lost it when the herpes infested Spag Os started spurting forth.
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oooo look at me and my american apparel bandeau top. stripping off was totally not s***, right? THIS GIRL IS A DOUCHE
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