Living in the mall.
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- KevinTx
I heard about this on NPR this morning..
- harlequino0
Heard this too. Must have been a real interesting scene when the security guards found the place. I guess they found the place, and lay in wait for the occupants to return. I imagine it went down like this:
*Artists walk in to discover guards sitting quietly, waiting for them to retunr. The guards much on something slowly, slightly glaring at the young alternate types.
Artist: "That's my Polly-O String cheese you're eating."
Guard: "Not anymore. Pinko."
- KevinTx0
Artist: "That's my Polly-O String cheese you're eating."
Guard: "Not anymore. Pinko."
harlequino
(Oct 4 07, 08:44)hahahah
- ethered0
i know some spots
- Mimio0
I don't understand what they were trying to achieve with their "art". How does time spent in a parking structure room playing Playstation give them any insight into mall culture?
- flavorful0
Are we going to start calling hobos "artists" as a result of this?
This could give kOna free reign to kill most of the PVN now.
* Tightens up tie.
* Pops suit collar.I'm good.
- grafiske0
The guy that did was from a town about 20 minutes away from the one I live in.
He was a teacher at RISD and created memorials for 911 victims.
This thing is pretty phenomenal. It doesnt say much about this, but it could be taken as a statement on the cost of housing. He used land which no one would (maybe) notice or care about. That is pretty incredible.
- Mimio0
Michael Townsend's site:
http://www.tapeart.com/
- harlequino0
Perhaps they weren't sure yet themselves what they were trying to acheive artisticaly. Not all 'art' is a tangible object to be hung on a wall. It can also be a living process. Why can't one 'live as a work of art?'
:)
- TheBlueOne0
Are we going to start calling hobos "artists" as a result of this?
flavorful
(Oct 4 07, 08:56)* See Bukowski, Charles
- TheBlueOne0
Why can't one 'live as a work of art?'
harlequino
(Oct 4 07, 09:09)*See Spears, Britney
- Mimio0
Why can't one 'live as a work of art?'
harlequino
(Oct 4 07, 09:09)See: Kafka: A Hunger Artist
- ethered0
See Jackson, Michael Orenthal
- harlequino0
Har har, yes yes.
But what I meant to say was that by declaring "this process is in and of itself an art piece" it's totally valid to....ah fuck it.
- ethered0
"Are we going to start calling hobos "artists" as a result of this?"
See CALLES
- Mimio0
Even if it was a documented and private process I still fail to see what it has to say about the human condition.
- flavorful0
Perhaps they weren't sure yet themselves what they were trying to acheive artisticaly. Not all 'art' is a tangible object to be hung on a wall. It can also be a living process. Why can't one 'live as a work of art?'
:)
harlequino
(Oct 4 07, 09:09)Yes, but it did not really seem they had a good explanation as to why they did this, outside of the fact they could (* insert 'do you really have to explain art, to produce art.' here *).
I would call this more a socioeconomic-experiment as opposed to a solely artistic piece.
The fact the man does in fact create "art" outside of playing PS2 in a mall parking garage is meaningless, except it made him able to get probation outside of possible jail time.
- ethered0
was anyone ever in Malaga circa 1988 to witness the guy that locked himself in with monkeys in a cage in his private (yet public) zoo to make an artistic statement?
Im not holding my breath.
- ethered0
oh wait it was a political/artistic protest