tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post945578097554973222..comments2023-11-05T04:09:26.194-05:00Comments on e g r e g o r e s: Pastor Terry Jones: Outsider Performance Artist?Apuleius Platonicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11761230673724504084noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-51003668606911372232011-04-17T23:31:27.096-04:002011-04-17T23:31:27.096-04:00Cool blog.
“What is Art?” is an old question, and...Cool blog.<br /><br />“What is Art?” is an old question, and I don’t think it can be answered definitively, but it certainly has something to do with the intention of the “performer” and the subjective experience of the audience.<br /><br />I’m not sure Terry Jones’ stunt qualifies as performance art, but it ought to be treated as such, especially if the alternative is killing UN workers in Afghanistan. <br /><br />People debated Mapplethorpe and “Piss Christ,” but nobody died. Although now that I think about it, Bowie’s “Outside” was a concept album about a performance artist/serial killer.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16323871207793126503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-24470733413879694872011-04-10T23:37:42.106-04:002011-04-10T23:37:42.106-04:00This post is excellent, very provocative. Art beco...This post is excellent, very provocative. Art becoming more about the audience than the artist, and revealing how vile and animalistic people can be.<br /><br />To me, a question emerges from this: "art" is often seen as having a special intrinsic value and validity, so that if it's "art", then of course it must be defended.<br /><br />As someone with a degree in Fine Arts, I'm not convinced that we should always defend art in this way. Take the locally notorious case of a student at Elam Art School in Auckland, a few years before I was studying (at a different art school). This guy's final-year art project involved using secretly-filmed footage of him and his partner having sex, mixed in with images of young children, I believe. I haven't seen it, but apparently it was quite disturbing, especially to his partner, when she discovered at the end-of-year marking presentation what he had made out of their romance. But he was awarded excellent marks for it, and was somewhat the envy of the other students for a day or two -- until his partner killed herself. That artwork resulted in death, great trauma and a shockwave that affected the entire school.<br /><br />At some point, art ceases being cute.Ben Whitmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13956579362050671872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7817911217098974229.post-42138310372309790372011-04-10T12:57:16.929-04:002011-04-10T12:57:16.929-04:00This is so excellent that I can hardly being to ar...This is so excellent that I can hardly being to articulate what you have provoked. Art meeting reality and how do we interpret that? <br />I could personally relate to Marina Abramovic's piece which basically says women are passive to the violence done them and then when we move, the oppressors scatter like the cowards they are. Wow. <br />How that relates to that crazy pastor is really about ideology in my opinion. If that old pastor could get away with killing Muslims, he would. He knew the triggers and deliberately provoked them. Yes, very very sick. It would be interesting to see what kind of painting that sick jerk would make, if that were all he was allowed to do in the asylum of his own making. This really has me thinking a new way. Interesting. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com