South Dakota Art Center Stops French Performance Involving Vomiting, Simulated Sex

AP ^ | Saturday, March 10, 2007

[four more in O 4]

b&b's expressions are perfect.

[coydog]

IMO, GG Allin did it all and did it better. Oh, he's dead now, too bad. CAUTION: not for sensitive stomachs, browsing on your work break or for the faint of heart.

[This Just In]

"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.

[Richard Kimball]

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.

[pepsionice]

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.

[Old Professer]

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...

[This Just In]

"...government funded art to be pretentious, self-absorbed and boring."

You're to kind. I wouldn't call it art.

"I like what I like, whatever label is applied to it."

My sentiments as well. I also love Rockwells work. Minor Whites(despite my objections to certain aspects of his personal life) work is as provoking to me as Ansel Adams
tranquil and inspiring.

Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Picasso, and Monet are just a few of my favorites.

[This Just In]

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[ZULU]

What did they expect?

They're French.

[ApplegateRanch]

I enjoy making soap, pickles and sauerkraut.

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.

[ApplegateRanch]

If Mr. Dorsman didn't check out these scumbags beforehand, he is too stupid to be running an art center.

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.

[ApplegateRanch]

As Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes, "There is nothing new under the sun...".

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.

[Gator113]

Yet some continue to drink their wine.

[Erasmus]

In the old days, the local Count would have had them struck down from swords.

Makes you wonder how far we have really advanced.

[Siobhan]

A story with "French" and "vomit" in it plus "simulated sex" -- sounds like an evening's entertainment at a Democratic fund raiser.

[Caipirabob]

"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.

*sigh* Next time, don't ask a Frenchman what they recommend for an American.

[California Patriot]

Fair enough -- he was a promoter. My points still apply.

[Gene Eric]

>> 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.