people that elevate one peace of art above another should be shot.

I have nothing against this woman and can evan enjoy what she dose , but at the same time many people would think this is epic and at the same time belive that sumone playing tidaly winks is a waste of time.

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Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.

was that a streaker? =P

>> ^ghark:

was that a streaker? =P


Yep.

>> ^Chinspinigcra:

Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.


First off.... what?


second, this does nothing for me unfortunately. I appreciate the time that went into this, but it's not beautiful, it doesn't show anything deep about the people she sat with, its just.. sitting.

Watch Art School Confidential for the frustration some artists feel about this.

If the emotion this was meant to evoke was boredom then I think she succeeded.

The time-lapse is interesting, but I can't help but to think that this is kinda like a chris angel thing...

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I tend to agree with you. It is an oddly dated piece. But I still think she is a fascinating figure in the 'art world'. Ugh. Hate that word.

From the NYT review:
" The museum estimates that, if she can stick to the plan, she will sit for 716 hours and 30 minutes, earning her a record for endurance in the performance art sweepstakes.

In a sense the whole business is another act of self-enshrinement in the art world’s ego Olympics, and that’s not interesting. Divas are a dime a dozen, and I don’t trust charisma anyway. More interesting, because it ties in with her impulse to conserve a possibly unconservable art form, is the way “The Artist Is Present” attempts to control time, hers and ours.

I have no idea what her experience of sitting in that atrium for all those hours will be; there has to be some serious agony involved, which is where she hooks up with her implacably daredevil younger self. But my guess is that her presence will have a demonstrable effect on visitors to the museum; that it will slow them down, get them out of drive-by looking mode.

And every now and then someone will slip into that chair across from her — that’s what it’s there for — and spend some time exchanging stares, or energy, or going blank, or thinking, maybe for the first time, about that hard, high-flown, funny word “endure.”

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^Chinspinigcra:
Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.

First off.... what?

second, this does nothing for me unfortunately. I appreciate the time that went into this, but it's not beautiful, it doesn't show anything deep about the people she sat with, its just.. sitting.

Tell me why I shouldn't just instaban you out of hand?
>> ^Chinspinigcra:

Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.

I did this once, but instead of people in front of me, it was world of warcraft... good times.

Thanks Marina.

Thanks Griefer.

I would upvote this purely if it was just the music, I love EITS.

I was there and saw her... but damn why did I have to miss the streaker? LOL

>> ^gwiz665:

I did this once, but instead of people in front of me, it was world of warcraft... good times.


Most people do this -- in their 9 - 5 jobs.. tech workers, office workers, public drivers of buses, cabs, and so on.. We do a lot of sitting in our culture.

>> ^Trancecoach:

>> ^gwiz665:
I did this once, but instead of people in front of me, it was world of warcraft... good times.

Most people do this -- in their 9 - 5 jobs.. tech workers, office workers, public drivers of buses, cabs, and so on.. We do a lot of sitting in our culture.


Okay.. then what makes this so special? I get what GF said about how she's setting a record.. but honestly, it's just sitting

There's nothing special about this, as you JUST said, most people do it for their jobs.

Concur on point 2. The timelapse is very poorly done. It's one or two stills of each person she sat with. If we're using it to show that she sat with a lot of people, fine, but that's not the point.

This needed to convey the time spent, which was a large part of the piece. If some people sat with her for 8 hours, and some people for 5 minutes, that time discrepancy needs to be demonstrated through the video.

If people had strong reactions while sitting with her (which I hear they did), the evolution of that person's mood through time needs to be represented.

Just poorly done. Sorry.>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^Chinspinigcra:
Upvote for not being radical-left-wing-GWIZ-lie-machine-democrat-payola-shitt. This video is a proud one percent of it's kind on VS.

First off.... what?

second, this does nothing for me unfortunately. I appreciate the time that went into this, but it's not beautiful, it doesn't show anything deep about the people she sat with, its just.. sitting.

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^Trancecoach:
>> ^gwiz665:
I did this once, but instead of people in front of me, it was world of warcraft... good times.

Most people do this -- in their 9 - 5 jobs.. tech workers, office workers, public drivers of buses, cabs, and so on.. We do a lot of sitting in our culture.

Okay.. then what makes this so special? I get what GF said about how she's setting a record.. but honestly, it's just sitting
There's nothing special about this, as you JUST said, most people do it for their jobs.


It gets to the question of what is art. The purpose of this could just as well be that she is drawing attention to the fact that our contemporary life, which includes a lot of sitting, has absurdist qualities, just as an art exhibition that draws attention to such a fact.

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.

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.

The artists bowing to the audience at the end ruined it for me.

To me it shows she does it to be famous and admired and not for the sake of art. Not because she aimply can't not do it but because she wants to.

Then again I'm miserable and set too high standards everywhere I go.
But then again maybe that's not a bad thing.

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