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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b&b's expressions are perfect.
"I'll guarantee you government money was involved in this."
Of course. What self-respecting person in their right mind would pay, given the choice, for this?
Performance Art, let alone Modern Art, is what they call a any project that merely causes you to "feel". And if you can offend someone, better yet. Although, there are legitimate artists in the field of MA, but they are few.
I almost always find government funded art to be pretentious, self-absorbed and boring. I like what I like, whatever label is applied to it. Some of my favorite artists are Norman Rockwell, Vincent LaForet (a dynamite photographer for the NY Times), Margaret Bourke-White, Weegee, ancient Greek sculpture, the Wyeths, Kaye Nielson, Howard Pyle, Claude Monet and Gianlorenzo Bernini.
You guys have to remember that those folks up in the Dakotas don't have much art to appreciate...so even if three mechanics from Cleveland showed up with a Chevey transmission...mounted on a oak pedestal...that'd be a fair bit of art for them.
Sure wish I could find a art management job that paid $40k a year up in Iowa or somewhere...I'd bring in some homeless dudes from Hollywood or something to pretty up the area.
When they stoop to violating carrots, they have gone too far; it must have been traumatic.
Imagine a rent carrot, ranting, running and screaming as it flees the stage...
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What did they expect?
They're French.
I hope not from the same ingredients. LOL
This is local for me, and I suspect we'll still be hearing scandalized commentary for weeks to come, unless we get some rain to talk about.
He doesn't run it; he was a promotor who hired the use of it.
He has also been permanently banned from ever putting on any more shows there.
After hearing and reading about it, it put me in mind of Mark Twain, in Huckleberry Finn, where the long-lost Dauphin & his partner staged their performance of The Royal Nonsuch".
It's a shame these "Artists" didn't have a similar audience, armed with over-ripe fruits & veggies, and a supply of tar & feathers.
Yet some continue to drink their wine.
In the old days, the local Count would have had them struck down from swords.
Makes you wonder how far we have really advanced.
A story with "French" and "vomit" in it plus "simulated sex" -- sounds like an evening's entertainment at a Democratic fund raiser.
*sigh* Next time, don't ask a Frenchman what they recommend for an American.
Fair enough -- he was a promoter. My points still apply.
>> Imagine a rent carrot, ranting, running and screaming as it flees the stage...
Imagine what would have happened if someone threw a bar of soap onto the stage.
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