Congratulations! You were rude to someone on the internet! Fortunately people like you are relatively rare on VideoSift.

Anyway, regardless of whether performance art affects opinions, I don't think you get to force unconsenting people to kiss you in the name of art. Once people clearly resist I think you have to stop. I guess that makes me boring. Can you seriously tell me the police women in the video were "reformed" in the intended manner? An assault like this is more likely to have the opposite effect.

>> ^Yogi:

Are you challenging the effect Performance Art has on peoples opinions...because I'm certain you're incredibly boring.

>> ^srue:

Is this not low-grade sexual assault? Don't these officers have a right to choose who they kiss and who kisses them? This doesn't seem like an effective way to make the police "more relaxed," "liberated," or "light-hearted."


Are you challenging the effect Performance Art has on peoples opinions...because I'm certain you're incredibly boring.

...maybe it's all "I'm Still Here" style performance art?

Just. Frikkin'. Wow!!!

Edit: It's gotta be performance art. No other explanation (even God) can explain Billo!

It's almost like they have a sense of humor about themselves.

Heh - no they really don't. The room was literally gasping at what he was saying. Robert Downey Jr. looked like he was swallowing a live hagfish. Some were more OK with it than others of course, but clearly Gearvis was hitting them where it hurt and they didn't like it. The hollywood media is literally on fire right now with commentary about how 'over the top' he was. They are going on and on about how he was mean-spirited, unfair, and below the belt.

Meanwhile papers in UK, France, and Germany are saying he was brilliant. I think this quote sums it up quite nicely...

"By their own standards what Ricky Gervais did was a form of performance art. After all, we are talking about an industry that revels in the idea of pushing the boundaries of good taste and decency, that revels in the art of ridicule, shock and satirical character assassination. Except, obviously, when they find themselves on the wrong end of all that ”edgy” envelope pushing."

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mimes, black women, performance art, breathtaking, hah' to 'mimes, black women, performance art, breathtaking, hah, supershort' - edited by Kevlar

I posted this video purely for it's wtf factor. Somehow, this has ignited a serious conversation as to what and what does not constitute true art, and has called her artistic integrity and true motivations into question. Although I wouldn't classify this as 'high art', who the fuck am I to say that it is completely devoid of artistic merit? This seems to be more along the lines of conceptual performance art, and I highly doubt that she billed this as 'great theatre'...I enter into videos, such as this, with experiential prejudices and preconceived notions of the 'pretentious hipster artist', and I judge her and her type quite harshly, dismissing her work as an infantile attempt to induce shock value. If I knew that she was some kind of Julliard alumni who was touted as 'the future of dance', I wonder how that might affect my rating this video on a scale of 'artistic merit'. At least this production has balls and doesn't pander to the accepted norm. I would love to hear the average sifters critical analysis of a Picasso(for instance). We all know that he's considered to be a master, but why? Could you explain it without rehashing what you learned in Art History or what you've read on Wikipedia? Art fascism is an ugly thing. In the end it boils down to personal opinion....

After watching this clip, I get a better sense of what the top video could be about. While I'm no expert on performance art, by any means, there seems to be themes of domesticity, sexuality, and consumption being explored in both pieces... and how some people keep their expressiveness wrapped up in a house, giving it life only through perverted voyeurism or prepackaged pop music.

Or not... It's interesting to me, anyway.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Bouncy boobs and a masturbating peeping tom.

It appears to have all been a 2 year piece of performance art, including the rap shows.

For sheer effort, I'm definitely going to see the end product. I doubt I'll fork over the green, given that no one appears to like it, but I'm interested enough to see what comes out of 2 years worth of footage.

performance *art

HAHAHAH wow, talk about a human train wreck. If he gets elected, perhaps he can ban the eating of paint chips which gave him is plucky disposition!

In reply to this comment by JiggaJonson:
Ok I'm sorry, i know this is my third comment on this but I've been perplexed/utterly fascinated by this whole thing. It seems like the website http://politics.freesitenow.com/basilmarceauxforgovernor/ which is where BasilMarceaux.com will redirect you to is down due to a huge traffic influx but I found others who have been to the site:

"When I first saw the video early this morning, I thought Marceaux had just kicked back a few too many drinks to calm his nerves before a big television appearance but, after viewing Marceaux’s website (which, despite what he says in the video, totally isn’t ImBasilMarceaux.com or even BasilMarceaux.com) and reading his writings, it became clear that what you see is what you get and that this is the real Basil Marceaux…or possibly the most brilliant political performance art prank since Andy Kaufman threw on some cheek puddy, faked a deeper gruff voice, and made everyone believe that there was a real man named “Richard Nixon“. On the website, Marceaux has a list of “Things I done for my citizens,” asks “why Democracy invaded the U.S. State on July 16 1866,” and promises that, if people vote for him, “I WIN I WILL IMMUNE YOU FROM ALL STATE CRIMES FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE!” Even more amazingly, you can check out his son’s site (Basil Jr. is running for Tennessee House Representative) and find some equally terrific quotes."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/meet-gubernatorial-candidate-basil-marceaux-proof-americas-democracy-is-still-healthy/

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And if you want a REAL laugh check out his youtube page which consists of nothing but him staring into the camera for 8 minutes with static audio
http://www.youtube.com/basilmarceaux#p/

Ok I'm sorry, i know this is my third comment on this but I've been perplexed/utterly fascinated by this whole thing. It seems like the website http://politics.freesitenow.com/basilmarceauxforgovernor/ which is where BasilMarceaux.com will redirect you to is down due to a huge traffic influx but I found others who have been to the site:

"When I first saw the video early this morning, I thought Marceaux had just kicked back a few too many drinks to calm his nerves before a big television appearance but, after viewing Marceaux’s website (which, despite what he says in the video, totally isn’t ImBasilMarceaux.com or even BasilMarceaux.com) and reading his writings, it became clear that what you see is what you get and that this is the real Basil Marceaux…or possibly the most brilliant political performance art prank since Andy Kaufman threw on some cheek puddy, faked a deeper gruff voice, and made everyone believe that there was a real man named “Richard Nixon“. On the website, Marceaux has a list of “Things I done for my citizens,” asks “why Democracy invaded the U.S. State on July 16 1866,” and promises that, if people vote for him, “I WIN I WILL IMMUNE YOU FROM ALL STATE CRIMES FOR THE REST OF YOU LIFE!” Even more amazingly, you can check out his son’s site (Basil Jr. is running for Tennessee House Representative) and find some equally terrific quotes."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/meet-gubernatorial-candidate-basil-marceaux-proof-americas-democracy-is-still-healthy/

[EDIT]

And if you want a REAL laugh check out his youtube page which consists of nothing but him staring into the camera for 8 minutes with static audio
http://www.youtube.com/basilmarceaux#p/

>> ^direpickle:

While it's presented as satire, elsweyr on the Internet (Fark?) someone dug up some photos of her from Facebook, and watched her other videos: That is how she does herself up.


So... Performance art?

There are good paintings and there are bad paintings...
What makes this hard to judge is there is nothing to compare it against...

The opinion of the art community would be "judge not, lest ye be judged"
A bold few have their opinions but like religion, performance art seems above reproach.
If it's awesome/good people say so but if it's uneventful, boring or crap, people respond with diplomatic comments which support and enhance the piece. They try to intellectualize it instead instead of just saying, "Um, no, it's crap! Don't feed this to me as art".

There is an ongoing opinion in art that says if it's in the gallery, then it's art. Like it of leave it.

Reminds me of the short story "The Hunger Artist" by Kafka. Though I have no idea what exactly her motivations are in performing this peice, its just one person in one place as a peice of performance art, which is very superficially what the hunger artist is.