Posted on 03/10/2007 5:10:23 PM PST by Panzerlied
RAPID CITY, South Dakota A show where French performance artists vomited, simulated sex and threw fake feces was stopped by the promoter, who quickly apologized.
Lisou Prout and Jean-Louis Costes also stripped and spit potato chips on the crowd at a local arts center.
Audience members said the act depicted American life from birth to death. The show was stopped shortly after a simulated sex act involving a carrot.
"I was told they were performance artists from France and were highly recommended. I think I was told wrong," said promoter Kevin Dorsman, who stopped the show.
It was much too extreme for Rapid City, population 60,000 or so, but well done as performance art, Dorsman added.
"My understanding is nobody had any idea, and these two performers just decided to drop their drawers or whatever," said Barb Evenson, who handles rentals for the Dahl Arts Center.
Dorsman stressed that the art center had nothing to do with bringing in the group.
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Lisou Prout Jean-Louis Costes - Google Search
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Nothing builds the bona fides of an "artist" as much as shocking the rubes in some jerkwater town in flyover county so badly that they shut down your show.
These people are shoo-ins for a MacArthur Prize and many more grants besides. They will spend the rest of their comfortable careers vomiting, buggering, and spitting potato chips, on tiny audiences of homosexuals and wealthy society matrons, in a handful of big cities and college towns, mostly on the taxpayer's nickel.
-ccm
Jean-Louis Costes
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This article is about Jean-Louis Costes. For Hotel Costes and the related music CDs, see Hotel Costes. :
Jean-Louis Costes is a noise musician. He was once the husband of Lisa Crystal Carver, and he helped write the backing noise-opera music of the Suckdog Circus, and was also a performer in Suckdog, along with Carver, Dame Darcy, Coz the Shroom and others. Costes has released many albums, including Hung by the Dick from Nihilist Records. Costes has been described as the French version of GG Allin.
Some of his albums have been banned in his native country of France for their obscenity.
In 2004, he performed the Holy Virgin Cult show across the United States, scaring audiences away with a barrage of flung feces, urine, tortured screaming, public sex and religious flagellation.
He also appeared in the 2002 film Irréversible by Gaspar Noe.[1]
Costes, joined by Lisou Prout, is currently in the midst of the Les Petits Oiseaux Chient (Little Birds Shit) tour across the United States and Canada.
Even though Mr. Costes and company have enjoyed rave reviews by Preformance Arts Critics, most of his audiences agree, Mr. Costes and company have little to no talent.
How much is a taxpayer's nickel, adjusted for inflation?
They'd be a smash hit at the '08 Democrat (no-'ic')convention.
Don't know if you want this one.
I can't believe it - I don't read the news for a couple of months and the world is hurtling into the abyss at an even faster speed.
:-(
Hold on now. Let's leave the yams out of this.
If they filmed it they would earn an academy award. Barbara Streisand would sing a song about them.
He has a great sense of humor and doesn't take himself too seriously.
He's done some interesting science-related stuff as well.
And how is this different from normal french 'artistic events?'
Come on, cut him some slack.
He stopped the show, midstream. Have you EVER heard of that being done? I haven't
He APOLOGISED right there, to everyone, in front of the 'artisits'? When was the last time THAT'S been done? To my knowledge never.
We should have such art directors everywhere.
Fair point. He deserves a lot of credit for this. I'm sure, as you say, this is rare.
He still deserves blame for booking these scumbags.
No kidding. That took a lot of guts actually.
That said, I thought the French were cultured people. That's what they always tell us, at least.
ROFL. That is just too funny. Thanks for the link.
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