[Panzerlied]

Ars longa, vita brevis.

[Gene Eric]

>> The show was stopped shortly after a simulated sex act involving a carrot.

They should have used soap.

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

French... Vomiting... Simulated Sex

Why do those words go so well together?

[alice_in_bubbaland]

"I was told they were performance artists from France and were highly recommended. I think I was told wrong," said promoter

The person who gave the recommendation must have been a stupid libnut.

[Cicero]

This is the sort of thing gives Performance Art a bad name. Especially the bit with the carrot. Now, smearing yourself with chocolate, that's OK.

[Delta 21]

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[Richard Kimball]

I had a brief exchange with another Freeper over fine art, and why I abandoned the FA world after getting my bachelors. This is the kind of stuff that passes for art, now, and I do my art and don't care about the FA world.

To me, it's totally irrelevent, and if it wasn't funded by the government, would largely crash and burn. There's plenty of good artwork out there, but it's being done by people for an audience that wants to pay for it. I have no interest in the National Endowment for the Arts No One Wants to See. I just wish I could get them to quit making me pay for it (I'll guarantee you government money was involved in this).

[Larry Lucido]

Barf alert?

[pepperdog]

"It was much too extreme for Rapid City, population 60,000 or so, but well done as performance art, Dorsman added."

If it so freeking well done why did Dorksman pull it? Oh, now I understand, it because his audience was just too stupid to appreciate it. What a piece of work this guy/gal is! I hope the good people of South Dakota drop kick him/her to Canada.

[Taichi]

"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.


I would have thought the word France would have tipped him off.

[rogue yam]

A show where French performance artists vomited, simulated sex and threw fake feces was stopped by the promoter, who quickly apologized.

Pshaw! French poseurs. They'd better add a dominatrix, a satanic Indian, and a whiskey bottle if they want their little show to play FRisco, baby!

[DUMBGRUNT]

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[ccmay]

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

[Carl LaFong]

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

[little jeremiah]

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.

:-(

[Secret Agent Man]

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

[dighton]

Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-To-Door Trying To Shock People

[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.

[Gator113]

Yet some continue to drink their wine.