those crazy artists...

[coelestium]

"The performance artist.... leaves the stage, descends into the paying crowd, seals her mouth with tape, takes off her clothes. 'Do what you will with me,' she mimes--she is turning herself into an object, empowering the members of the audience, discarding all the authority of the artist, and yet somehow that authority is retained. The naturally

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Weirdoddity

[melsbellie]

I would probably be shocked except I've seen some of that stuff too in my dance history class. Weird. Why would anyone want to do that?

Man, I was at that party.

[jddislexik]

They called it art, huh?

It's all a bit fuzzy.