Comments | breakrbreak_her: art or elitism

breakrbreak_her

art or elitism

Feb 14, 2007 20:17

I go to school to discuss why "performances" like this are considered apart of the art realm:

I think it's disgusting, but the only gratification I will recieve is when when the guy in the front row gets into a fist fight with another classmate. I know it will happen, I just know it.

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criickett February 15 2007, 04:26:43 UTC

dude. i honestly do not know how people could do something like that. i would have to make some kinda of noise.

mighty_dinosaur February 15 2007, 08:12:12 UTC

true true

carte February 15 2007, 16:04:32 UTC

Aw, I like John Cage ... although I do think I am, perhaps, a bit crazy. One of my contemporary art professors was at this performance.

breakrbreak_her February 16 2007, 20:30:15 UTC

no, see I like John Cage alot, too. But with this particular performance I feel that it is less artistic and more arrogant. The first time this was performed it was more genuine, I can somewhat appreciate the concept because the audience did not know what to expect. But, now that this has been performed so many times and people are purchasing these tickets knowing exactly what they're going to experience. It's a bunch of people who feel that they are incredibly cultured art enthusiasts. I don't buy it.

carte February 17 2007, 02:52:38 UTC

Oh! For some reason I thought you were talking about the original and just had the BBC video for a ... visual supplement? I am in absolute accordance with you then.

This is a bit of a tangent but!: contemporary art is my focus and I'm always ridiculously defensive about it because so many people criticize my choice in studying, saying that it "isn't art," and I suppose that's where I get uppity. I once got in an argument at the bookstore I used to work at with a fellow employee who basically discounted the last hundred or so years of art, saying that it's "idea based, ideas are for philosophy, and have no place in art." Blehh.

breakrbreak_her February 19 2007, 07:20:49 UTC

To write off an entire century's worth of art is just ignorant - all art is idea based, even to date as far back as mesopotamia. To put it simply, art is just the personifaction, or materialization of a person's vision. In my opinion, some of the best, as well as some of the worst, art of human existence has come from the last 100 years or so.

sneakynoises February 15 2007, 19:29:42 UTC

i miss you is your phone still busted?

breakrbreak_her February 16 2007, 20:31:22 UTC

nope! tiana gave me hers, call me! i lost a lot of numbers on my sim card.

howyoulove February 16 2007, 01:16:26 UTC

wow.