"Performance Art"

[ChemicalChaos]

This really is getting very silly now. Do these people really believe the bullst they spout? Will their audience ever realise it's the emporers new clothes?

Hot on the heels of the mad bint who sat naked on a rooftop:

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/31/woman-strips-naked-a...

We now learn that staying in the city you already live in is "art"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3384730/Ar...

I'd say it's mental illness, not art

[Lucas CAV]

ChemicalChaos said:

This really is getting very silly now. Do these people really believe the bullst they spout? Will their audience ever realise it's the emporers new clothes?

Hot on the heels of the mad bint who sat naked on a rooftop:

http://metro.co.uk/2015/10/31/woman-strips-naked-a...

We now learn that staying in the city you already live in is "art"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3384730/Ar...

I'd say it's mental illness, not art

Why does it matter?

[anonymous-user]

shes not even fit, i watch my art at xhamster.

[HOGEPH]

Sat butt naked on the tiles
Her art, seen for miles
Brought many people smiles
But it played hell with her piles

[ChemicalChaos]

Lucas CAV said:

Why does it matter?

Perhaps because councils moan about budgets and austerity and cuts, but can give the year's wages of a frontline employee to some to doss about in the name of "art"

[paul.deitch]

Now get everyone to agree about what art is....
What is art to me might be rubbish to you and vice versa.

[Jimmy Recard]

Clever. A year off work but still getting paid to do fk all at all. I wish I'd thought of it

[wilfandrowlf]

Totally agree.

We had a similar thing in Bristol last year. Some "artist" was no doubt paid thousands to create a "Fog" bridge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-31446...

Utter horse st IMHO

All it did was create a slippery surface on the bridge!
No doubt our illustrious mayor (captain red trousers) had a hand in it too!

[E36GUY]

Strange subject, Art. One I steer away from as like you OP, I don't get it. Nor do I care but the best summing up for this type of modern or performance art I came across went thus:

"I could do that."
"Yes, but you didn't."

[TheJimi]

HOGEPH said:

Sat butt naked on the tiles
Her art, seen for miles
Brought many people smiles
But it played hell with her piles

Poetic Doodles!

LA is BACK

[Lucas CAV]

ChemicalChaos said:

Perhaps because councils moan about budgets and austerity and cuts, but can give the year's wages of a frontline employee to some to doss about in the name of "art"

The money is for art in Scotland. If not to her then it would go to another artist or project. The primary funding sources for this quango appear to be the Scottish government and the lottery. A better, less fogeyish question would be what happened to the bonfire of quangos .....

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

[Jagmanv12]

Totally ridiculous. Quangos like this should be removed immediately.

Her art is that she is a very clever con artist. As she has managed to con the people on the quango.

[putonghua73]

Reminds me of the episode of Spaced, where Tim and Daisy accompany Brian to see a performance art show put on by Brian's former paramour and his/her sidekick played by Dennis Pennis.

I regard the vast majority of modern (conceptual) art as a conceit; an intellectual sleight of hand.

I last went to a modern art exhibition at the Tate Modern in 2012 to see an exhibit by someone Kazami or the other (Japanese woman). The interpretation was more interesting than the exhibits.

Absolute wk,and not in the way I was expecting - although it should have come as no surprise that I failed miserably to pick-up any Japanese girls at the exhibition.

Ban this sick filth!

[T5XARV]

R.I.P Chris Burden.
Contemporary art for Ph'ers right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llacDdn5yIE

See also 'Big Wheel' and 'Porsche/Meterorite'

[Jezzerh]

The Spruce goose said:

shes not even fit, i watch my art at xhamster.

[Jezzerh]

Related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/delusionalartists/

[gazza285]

T5XARV said:

R.I.P Chris Burden.
Contemporary art for Ph'ers right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llacDdn5yIE

See also 'Big Wheel' and 'Porsche/Meterorite'

Want.

[24lemons]

When I did art related courses at college and university I quickly learned that the real 'art' in art is not the substance of what you produce, but coming up with enough pretentious twaddle to convince people (who are too worried about appearing unenlightened), that what you have presented is actually worth something.

[glazbagun]

24lemons said:

When I did art related courses at college and university I quickly learned that the real 'art' in art is not the substance of what you produce, but coming up with enough pretentious twaddle to convince people (who are too worried about appearing unenlightened), that what you have presented is actually worth something.

Whilst less condescending than the above I broadly agree. Art has long moved away from being able to draw a pretty picture (if you care about that, there's untold websites of people doing absolutely jaw-dropping work for little money), make a pretty sculpture or a pretty song.

Jazz has travelled far from anything most people would class as music because it's all been done before- where do you take it? What paint can you put on canvas, expression can you put into dance, idea can you put on in theatre that isn't a variation of something that's been done before? Everything becomes a refinement or reaction to something that has gone before, and as such there's probably fewer and fewer people who care.

If the arts body want to spend £15K of their allocated budget on this, then good luck to them. I'm sure they've had their budget slashed and denied a bunch of other projects the money. Plying your trade in Glasgow for £15K is hardly living it up, and has already proved more provocative than £15K of pretty pictures would have been. Is there a way to make cash from hits on your Facebook page? If there is she'll be raking it in from the DM professionally outraged aslmost as well as the DM itself!

[technodup]

If I'd just had my coupon splashed all over the internet for this I wouldn't be needing the £15k, it would be an experiment to see how I can live indoors for a year. I certainly wouldn't be walking the streets of Glasgow.

Utterly ridiculous. You could achieve her stated aims by taking a single day and actually talking to people.