A German artist collective stole a Joseph Beuys artwork from a Münster museum and gave it to an institution in Tanzania—and made a rollicking video about their stunt.
Posts Tagged → performance
The Clay Man
In this footage, artist William Cobbing wears a giant ball of clay on his head. He slices off layers with a wire to reveal a gooey, dripping face.
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Human Computers: RR63+WP.png
“Human Computers: RR63+WP.png” is an installation/performance by Jeff Thompson that opened at Locust Projects in Miami last weekend. Over the course of six hours, 13 performers slowly decoded a single PNG file entirely by hand using only pencil and paper worksheets.
Sleep performances on Tik Tok
Kids on TikTok are live streaming themselves sleeping. Andy Warhol who?
7/11
Conceptual art at its best!
The biggest Tik Tok cross-over
This could go on forever.
Followers
“Don’t go unnoticed. Follower is a service that grants you a real life Follower for a day. A no-hassle unseen companion. Someone that watches, someone that sees you, someone who cares.”
a project by Lauren McCarthy
Student Debt
Student Debt by David Horvitz
Oh Dracula
In 1974, at the Utah Museum of Art in Salt Lake City, Chris Burden climbed into a “chrysalis”-like sac and had himself installed in between some of the museum’s exceedingly random 18th century paintings, with candles placed at his head and feet. And there he hid all day.
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Random acts of beauty (and) nonsense
Zack Danger Brown has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to fund the making of potato salad. He set a $10 goal and he already reached $34,108. Oh, Internet.
Media Burn: the ultimate media event
“Media Burn integrates performance, spectacle and media critique, as Ant Farm stages an explosive collusion of two of America’s most potent cultural symbols: the automobile and television. On July 4, 1975, at San Francisco’s Cow Palace, Ant Farm presented what they termed the “ultimate media event.” In this alternative Bicentennial celebration, a “Phantom Dream Car”—a reconstructed 1959 El Dorado Cadillac convertible—was driven through a wall of burning TV sets.”
more documentation here
Hyper Current Living
“Hyper Current Living is a performance by Ryder Ripps in which he “lives” and “works” at Red Bull Music Academy between April 28th and May 5th 2013 – he’ll be drinking Red Bull and creating digital stuff at hyper speed. In the stream, our output is valued by its proliferation and its likes and favs – what incentive is there to spend 4 years writing a novel if it will just be a link in a stream lasting a few hours? The piece brings this trait into light by designating a time and space to the creation of such fragmented, short interactions native to social media.”
Milking is the new planking
Conceptual Art Fail
The Story Of Bow & Arrow. Reloaded
Image by Systaime. And here is the original performance.
After Duchamp
ART SCHOOL HAZING RITUAL (AFTER DUCHAMP), 2012 – performance
Cycle of Experimental Art
“Cycle of Experimental Art”, (1968), Rosario, Argentina by Graciela Carnevale:
In the context of Fascist Argentina, Carnevale invited an audience to an exhibition where she locked them inside the gallery for over an hour without prior notice or explanation, until the crowd finally decided to smash the glass to escape.
Touchy, a human camera
Touchy is a human camera, who is blinded constantly until someone’s touch enables the opening of the automated shutters. While a continuous physical contact is maintained between Touchy and a user, the camera shoots a photo every 10 seconds.
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de/Rastra
The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer is a real-time audio/video instrument and computer-interfacing device that allows a performer to generate visualizations intrinsic tocathode ray tube technology while simultaneously creating the acoustic analog of the displayed imagery.
Let’s talk about art, said the fool to the idiot
“I would be humiliated if I found out that anything I did actually became a commercial success.” – Lydia Lunch