Posted on 03/12/2007 12:24:23 PM PDT by SubGeniusX
RAPID CITY --Two French performance artists’ nudity, simulated violence and sex acts, and use of faux-urine and feces, shocked the crowd and even the promoter at Dahl Arts Center on Wednesday.
After stripping off their grubby clothes, the pair gobbled potato chips and spit them on the crowd, vomited into a filthy commode and threw around fake feces and urine before being shut down about a half hour into what was to be a 45-minute performance.
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The last straw, apparently, was a simulated sex act involving a carrot.
Audience member Ben Lemay said he can safely say he has never seen anything like it in Rapid City, or anyplace in the Midwest for that matter.
“It was pretty much a show centered on shock value,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at rapidcityjournal.com ...
you mean "aristo-CRAP" doncha?
(You can read about the "philosophy" behind this garbage here.)
Is anyone shocked by this? Is anything here original? Someone wake me up when it's over.
Ha ha, very good!
Most "performance art", as a subset of modern, abstract "art", is nothing of the sort, of course. If not for government handouts, most of these "artists" truly would be starving, because few, if any private citizens or bsuinesses would ever sponsor them for this sort of thing.
Glad I clicked. Wasn't sure if this was about Arlene Dahl, Roald Dahl, or Steve Dahl.
Very Good!
So it's only Americans who go to the bathroom and have sex? (Lucky us, as to that last part.) What about the other 5.75 billion people on earth?
I'm surprised that it didn't star Bubba & Monica.
Well, you know, we French ARE called "Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys" all across America.
And what does anybody who's ever been to the zoo know monkeys do best?
That's right, fling poop!
I would love to have a minicam shot of the audience getting the vapors as this thing went on. It would be about as entertaining as the account of that Methodist Church down South whose new (female) minister had a "good idea" about how to "alter" the Easter Children's Special (without telling anyone). As the little kiddies and their mommies were all bundled into their seats, the Easter Bunny hopped out and started handing out chocolate. Then armed Roman Soldiers marched in, grabbed the Easter Bunny, threw the basket with the eggs down on the floor and stomped on them, and faux-crucified the Easter Bunny in front of an audience of bawling, screaming children and upset parents. Ending the whole affair with a faux-dead Easter Bunny hanging on the cross and one of the Roman soldiers glaring at the audience and proclaiming "There IS NO Easter Bunny!". Then they marched off.
The minister, called on the carpet for this, stammered that she wanted to get out to young children "the True Meaning of Easter".
Between crucified Easter Bunnies and poop-flinging Surrender Monkeys, there's something there to gladden the cockles of the darkest and most malicious little heart. Heh heh.
Oh, I left out the part about the Roman soldiers flogging the Easter Bunny before they crucified him. "Mommy, why are they whipping the Easter Bunny?"
I thought they were the Sophisticates. My mistake.
Shoulda done their act in San Francisco, they would get standing ovations..............
nope;
#23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
#24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
#25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm
They used fake feces? That's nothing. GG Allin did the real thing. Check out "Hated in America."
You KNOW Bubba and Monica auditioned. But the troupe is french, and we all know how clannish they can be. Also, the french have to be in charge of everything, and I don't think Bubba would have gone for that.
... lol ... see my post #17 was posting at same time as yours ...
Yes, that's true. But let's not confuse that fact with whether or not this is "good art." Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime (but one recently sold for almost $100 million!) and it took benefactors to support Monet's work as well.
I'm not saying that in a hundred years these people will be the Van Goghs of the art world, but I don't think it's fair to pooh-pooh what they do just because there isn't a market for it.
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