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South Dakota Art Center Stops French Performance Involving Vomiting, Simulated Sex
AP ^ | Saturday, March 10, 2007

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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To: Yehuda
"Audience members said the act with the carrot depicted french life as bending over to sand-nazis from birth to death. The show was stopped shortly after a simulated sex act involving a carrot being used to torture a koran, when the donkey objected."

Torture a Koran?

Sacre bleu!

21 posted on 03/10/2007 5:42:13 PM PST by XR7
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To: Panzerlied

Click at your own risk!
Lisou Prout Jean-Louis Costes - Google Search

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Lisou+Prout+Jean-Louis+Costes+&btnG=Google+Search


22 posted on 03/10/2007 5:43:28 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT (islam is a mutant meme)
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To: Panzerlied
The sad thing is, they have played right into the hands of this pair of mountebanks.

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

24 posted on 03/10/2007 5:53:07 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Not much excuse for not knowing what this guy does

Jean-Louis Costes

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

25 posted on 03/10/2007 5:56:15 PM PST by digger48
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To: ccmay

How much is a taxpayer's nickel, adjusted for inflation?


26 posted on 03/10/2007 5:59:08 PM PST by LurkingSince1943 (Former War Criminal)
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To: Panzerlied

They'd be a smash hit at the '08 Democrat (no-'ic')convention.


27 posted on 03/10/2007 6:07:11 PM PST by Carl LaFong ( Enough Is Too Much !)
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To: wagglebee

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.

:-(


28 posted on 03/10/2007 7:05:49 PM PST by little jeremiah (Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
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To: rogue yam

Hold on now. Let's leave the yams out of this.




Let's hear the Yams. The Nays.

The Yams have it.


29 posted on 03/10/2007 7:17:43 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Richard Kimball
All that government money going for performance art and I can't get a federal grant for my performance art piece entitled "Beating Stupid Morons with a Piece of Lumber."
30 posted on 03/10/2007 7:19:15 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: digger48

If they filmed it they would earn an academy award. Barbara Streisand would sing a song about them.


31 posted on 03/10/2007 7:21:16 PM PST by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Grizzled Bear
You're not any relation to "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan are you?


32 posted on 03/10/2007 7:25:46 PM PST by Richard Kimball (Why yes, I do have a stupid picture for any occasion)
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To: Richard Kimball
There is at least one decent performance artist. Chris Burden. He once did a piece called "You'll Never See My Face In Kansas City" in which he sat in a museum in Kansas City wearing a ski mask.

He has a great sense of humor and doesn't take himself too seriously.

He's done some interesting science-related stuff as well.

33 posted on 03/10/2007 7:29:09 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: Panzerlied

And how is this different from normal french 'artistic events?'


34 posted on 03/10/2007 7:47:25 PM PST by Secret Agent Man
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To: 69ConvertibleFirebird
Frenchmen flinging poop at people watching them...

Does this remind anybody else of the monkey cage at the zoo?
Watch out or they'll reach through the bars and steal your glasses.

It this what the French are reduced to in trying to maintain some relevance?

One wonders how they go on thinking so highly of their French culture.

It is time we dumped France from the UN Security Council and got a replacement nation with more clout.
35 posted on 03/10/2007 7:58:36 PM PST by ME-262 (Nancy Pelosi is known to the state of CA to render Viagra ineffective causing reproductive harm.)
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To: California Patriot

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.


36 posted on 03/10/2007 8:43:54 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

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.


37 posted on 03/10/2007 8:47:50 PM PST by California Patriot
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To: Balding_Eagle

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.


38 posted on 03/10/2007 8:49:22 PM PST by pollyannaish
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To: All
Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People
39 posted on 03/10/2007 8:49:22 PM PST by dighton
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To: dighton
"We were like, 'Welcome to our nightmare, you bloated, pustulent pigs.'"

ROFL. That is just too funny. Thanks for the link.

40 posted on 03/10/2007 8:50:53 PM PST by pollyannaish
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