Posted on 04/17/2008 11:47:55 AM PDT by julieee
There was also the performance artist a while back that had himself shot with a gun.
“There was also the performance artist a while back that had himself shot with a gun.”
“Did he have a repeat performance?”
Haa haaa! He made himself famous (and stupidly insane).
Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art and the 1970s.(Review)
When a performance artist slices into his own flesh, has himself shot in the arm or hammers his penis to a 2-by-4, what message are viewers supposed to get? Chances are the audience walks away with vivid images of those few shocking moments in which blood was drawn; the rest is just a blur or, like the superfluous narrative in a porn movie, an annoying prelude to the real action. What such performances are about is not much discussed. The medium is the message. ...
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-54099515.html
BTTT. I want to keep this thread out in front.
What next? Why don’t we have an art exhibit showing such beauty and creativity and have various aborted fetuses displayed on a plastic sheet. We can add “vaseline to keep the blood from drying out.” (I can hardly believe someone actually said this, thought this, and did this).
Yes, in fact, for utter fascination and artistic effect, we could show several aborted fetuses, from the early weeks all the way to the one that is discarded from a partial birth abortion.
Folks, if you have no idea about what pure evil is, this is it.
The sad fact is, my friend, that this young woman is human; the very same kind of humans that made the gas ovens at Auschwitz, put those Jews on the trains, and forced them into the Zyklon B showers.
There is no shortage of evil on this planet.
She will answer for this someday.
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