I saw Night of the Lepus in the theater. When the giant bunnies attacked the horse corral, someone yelled, “Oh no, not the horses.” The entire theater erupted in laughter.
“I don’t know if it’s Art, but I like it.”
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Maybe I’m just dense, but I’m not sure this is an effective commentary. I mean, I read the artist’s stated intent of
and I… I don’t feel like 32 tons of carrots makes that statement in a particularly clear way. I’d go so far as to say I’d never guess that was the pieces intent without being told. If anything seeing 32 tons of carrots in one location is going to be surreal enough to make me feel less grounded. Not that I’m saying I don’t want to see 32 tons of produce blocking the administrative building door at my university. I think if it was specifically blocking access to an admin or fiscal building it’d make a very clear statement. That statement being “fuck you” admittedly, but university admin often needs telling that, especially if they’re open during a pandemic.
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Makes about as much sense as a performance “art” piece that I once saw with a guy slapping his bare ass with a variety of luncheon meat slices. Definitely didn’t get the high and lofty message on that one either, but I guess I’m just an uncultured buffoon.
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not sure how anyone could prove it was “art” unless an art collector paid for it and took delivery
I went to art school and all…
but, dammit, if you need to write something to make your work at all understandable, why not just stick to writing?
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Sounds more like anti antipasto.
Just as John Cage proved that ‘music’ is any soundscape (or silence) you can get people to pay to experience, so Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol proved that ‘art’ is anything you can get someone to pay for. Sell it as ‘music’ or ‘art’ and voila!
“Art for art’s sake;
Money for god’s sake!”
–The Bobs
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Duchamp and Lichtenstein showed it works even if the opus was actually created by somebody else
hint: 32 tons of carrots is always just 32 tons of carrots. The “art” is created by mind.
I’m sure there are folks at that school that regard this as the greatest manifestation of art that has ever existed.
And there are a lot of folks who are thinking “I don’t know if it’s art, but it’s certainly a giant fucking mess”.
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I know this. The point I was trying to make (perhaps I should’ve thrown in a few more sentences) is that there can be too many interpretations, and your audience may not even want to make the interpretive effort because they have to get to work and their path is barred by a giant fucking mess of carrots. Now if the artist had titled it “Orange Inconvenience” or something, now we’re talking art!
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It’s so very art school.
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Well, if the artist had titled it that, it may have been confused with other orange horrible things in the news a lot recently, and the word “inconvenience” may have been taken as a gross understatement…
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Not to a Wabbit! That is a once in a lifetime miracle.
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How much time as passed and you still have something to say about it, though? It must have had some amount of impact.
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