It helps to consider the pretentious artistry as part of the piece. The writing about his experience doing the piece, and the experiences themselves are more in

It helps to consider the pretentious artistry as part of the piece. The writing about his experience doing the piece, and the experiences themselves are more interesting than the piece itself and need not be separate criteria. It's okay for most people to be alienated by it. They are neither wrong nor right to be so: I'm just happy that this art form exists.