So ... This is "art"

B.A._Baracus

Here is a video making the rounds on the internet (even youtube sensation ray william johnson talks about it @ 1:00 mark )


Welll ... here just watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1uDnIPTvo

what the FUCK!? :pac:
So yes people this is art these days.

Celly Smunt

any excuse not to pay tax.

girl in the striped socks

I watched thirty seconds of it.
That's thirty seconds of my life I won't ever get back.

Chucken

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

I watched thirty seconds of it.
That's thirty seconds of my life I won't ever get back.

Ahhh watch the end of it...its great

B.A._Baracus

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

I watched thirty seconds of it.
That's thirty seconds of my life I won't ever get back.

I honestly don't know whats more insane... the fact it was made or the fact the people behind it think its good. :pac:

Skyfall

I dont care, heres a rendition of what is love by haddaway



What is love?

Baby dont hurt me, dont hurt me, no more


DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG DANG!


Ohhh yeahhhhhhhh!

I don't know about you, but that's what my erection looks like too.

Logical_Bear

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Welll ... here just watch:

watched it with the sound down..please tell me they were german??

No, this is SPARTAAAAAA



artaaa

TheBody

Utter sh1te.

W.Shakes-Beer

This may give it some context

Abi

What in blue fúck did I just watch..

MistyCheese

I ain't hanging that on my wall!

the_syco

This ain't art, but it's a lot better!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8a79Cw3sfI

Schism

Ok, forgive my ignorance here but does anyone get this? Sure it's easy to say it's art, but I have no idea what's going on there...

Rothko

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't know about you, but that's what my erection looks like too.

You haven't got much girth to it then.

Chucken

Schism wrote: »

Ok, forgive my ignorance here but does anyone get this? Sure it's easy to say it's art, but I have no idea what's going on there...

Utter shyte!!

Skyfall

HARDCORE HARDCORE TAKE ME DOWN TO THE FLOOR!

BBDBB

Its symbolic of the struggle for life in an essentially uncaring and cynical world, where success is defined by personal wealth rather than personal growth. I thought that was obvious.........





















no, I havent a clue either

Abi

I've watched it again trying get my head around this, and it seems to be (to me anyway) focusing on people with disabilities of some form or another and 'making it' a form of art. The chick crawling along the floor, is she the vocalist? then the dude banging his would-be knob off the metal frame, then theres the last guy that attempts to make a tune from his... crutch thingy.

Terribly strange.

Wibbs

Schism wrote: »

Ok, forgive my ignorance here but does anyone get this? Sure it's easy to say it's art, but I have no idea what's going on there...

Yea S, but that's what exactly what some in some sections of the current "fine art" arena rely on. Not so much ignorance as the niggling feeling that you just might be missing the next Van Gogh. IMH I blame the aforementioned Dutchman with the ear not so suited to spectacle wearing for this. The art cognoscenti missed him at the time and there's an element of "jaysus it's shíte, but it might be the real deal and we were wrong before so.." going on. The thing is VG's peers were pretty much all making a few quid at the time. Monet was well minted, as was Manet, even Gauguin having his way with way too young girls in French polynesia was selling(until that came out). Me, I prefer the stuff going on in the craft arena. Some good art going on there. Much as I get the whole Dadaism reaction against craft and it was a great notion, it did give succour to some real fcuking talentless and clumsy charlatans after the fact and we're still living with it today.

Suas11

Suas11 wrote: »

You haven't got much girth to it then.

Maybe not, but it's got a great sound to it.

Sierra 117

Deleted User wrote: »

I don't know about you, but that's what my erection looks like too.

It sticks out of your belly button?

PC CDROM

I got it.

I am better than you.

Skyfall

PC CDROM wrote: »

I got it.

I am better than you.

Pah, Blu ray is where its at yo

Lenin Skynard

I thought it was pretty cool.

Yamanoto

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS1uDnIPTvo

It's clearly one of the more practical and dignified fas job-bridge initiatives

o1s1n

It's 'performance' art. Don't lump that ****e with real art please!

B.A._Baracus

o1s1n wrote: »

It's 'performance' art. Don't lump that ****e with real art please!

Too late :pac:

Adyx

At least it's not the video of that chick with the beans (I think it was beans she had). I've seen dogs create better "art".

Capt'n Midnight

I once saw a black square labelled "Garfunkel".

Yes, but was it art ?

Rothko

Deleted User wrote: »

Maybe not, but it's got a great sound to it.

I can't argue with that

carrig2

I thought it was funny

grudgebringer

WTF :eek: That was sooooooooo weird. How could anyone enjoy or find that entertaining??? What a fooked up world we live in if that passes as entertainment.

CrazyRabbit

That wasn't an art performance. That's footage of the last meeting of the Boards.ie Admin team.

Chorcai

In this hypnotic work the company’s 14 dancers explore themes of beauty and freedom, often appearing en pointe: on one, two, and even four at a time. Chouinard uses different devices – crutches, rope, horizontal bars, and harnesses – that by turns liberate, restrain and define the dancers’ movements. This use of accessories gives rise to playful explorations of body shape and gestures, painting a startling metaphor for the human condition.

http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Marie-Chouinard

I kinda like it

qz

What in the actual jewing fcuk is this.

ArtSmart

Chorcai wrote: »

In this hypnotic work the company’s 14 dancers explore themes of beauty and freedom, often appearing en pointe: on one, two, and even four at a time. Chouinard uses different devices – crutches, rope, horizontal bars, and harnesses – that by turns liberate, restrain and define the dancers’ movements. This use of accessories gives rise to playful explorations of body shape and gestures, painting a startling metaphor for the human condition.


http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Marie-Chouinard

I kinda like it

So, it wasn't a portrayal of our reduction and commodification of the American west after the civil war?


Hmmmm.

ArtSmart

The sparse flat open desert like landscape, the crippled and amputated stumbling and dragging their way through the tainted and opaque desolate space while the clang of that all America sound, the dinner bell, is rung by a crazed and grotesque caricature with the last remaining but falsified and forcibly attached symbol of a lost manhood, the metallic phallus.

A collection of walking corpses parody the giddy and disorganised dance of children playing 'war', while Dufort's piercing sounds echo across the white soulless sands and across their - and then our, horizons.

(no not from the site - me own genius

Napper Hawkins

ArtSmart wrote: »

The sparse flat open desert like landscape, the crippled and amputated stumbling and dragging their way through the tainted and opaque desolate space while the clang of that all America sound, the dinner bell, is rung by a crazed and grotesque caricature with the last remaining but falsified and forcibly attached symbol of a lost manhood, the metallic phallus.

A collection of walking corpses parody the giddy and disorganised dance of children playing 'war', while Dufort's piercing sounds echo across the white soulless sands and across their - and therefore our, horizons.

(no not from the site - me own genius

Well that clears that up so.

To bed!

ArtSmart

Napper Hawkins wrote: »

Well that clears that up so.

To bed!

yeah, sometimes it's easy to overlook the aul symbolism and what not.

ArtSmart

so, any one else wanna give reviewing the clip a go?

there's a prize in it, for the best one











(Disclaimer: Please note: the prize mentioned is more ethereal than tangible)

kowloon

It's a piece that reflects on th....look cats on the internet!

JupiterKid

Modern "art" has been so far up it's own arse for over 20 years now.

It's got to the point where anything can pass as art and if people don't get it, well then they're just uncouth uncultured philistines. It's like the arty set are all looking at "installation pieces" and "performance art" and admiring the Emperor's new clothes.

I love art - but good art. I was at a modern art museum in Amsterdam recently and all of the good stuff was produced prior to 1980.

Art has lost its way. There's still a lot of good quality stuff out there, but what gets promoted by the "cognoscenti" is mostly utter rubbish.

o1s1n

JupiterKid wrote: »

Modern "art" has been so far up it's own arse for over 20 years now.

'Modern Art' was a movement which ended in the 70s. What you're talking about is 'Postmodern Art' - Philistine!

/Resets monocle. :pac:

JupiterKid wrote: »

Art has lost its way. There's still a lot of good quality stuff out there, but what gets promoted by the "cognoscenti" is mostly utter rubbish.

Best thing to do is to like what you like and stick with it. Try to ignore all the hipster crap.

I spent 5 years in art college myself and as someone who was trying to really hone their draftsmanship skills, seeing that kind of crap did my head in.

Bruthal

girl in the striped socks wrote: »

I watched thirty seconds of it.
That's thirty seconds of my life I won't ever get back.

You should of watched it a little after 1am. Problem solved.

carrig2

robbie7730 wrote: »

You should of watched it a little after 1am. Problem solved.

sooooooooooo clever

Zer0

I only watched the first vid. But the understanding that I gained from it was that the video may represent the struggle that the disabled folk of this earth face when it comes to sex? I have an older brother that suffers with cerebal palsy so it kinda made sense to me? He walks with a crutch so he's not the worst in terms of pulling birds probbaly?

His mind is sound but his joints are very stiff but not in such a way as to prevent him from moving around etc. If you try to view it in this sense, is this what those misfortunite people who are paralised in wheelchairs feel when it comes to sex?

The bloke banging the crutch off the coat hanger, is this the frustration that is felt by those that are rendered unable to engage in sexual activities due to their disability?

Yeah my brother and I watched it and broke our ****es laughing at it because in a sense it is hilarious, but in another sense it represents a possible feeling of depression and angst to those who cannot engage in sexual activites due to their disabilities? Maybe I'm talking junk but that's how I understood the video.

MJ23

Eejits with too much time on their hands.

BBDBB

Chorcai wrote: »

I kinda like it

Perhaps Im pandering to the stereotype here, but when I think of a ballet dancer, I always thought that the costume would be more tutu-ish and less "two plasters and a jockstrap"

but I agree with your last statement