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This is just performance art. Change my mind. Institutional critique has been the latest hotness for a while in the art world... this is just the next phase.
by WFHRenaissance 4y ago
This is just performance art. Change my mind. Institutional critique has been the latest hotness for a while in the art world... this is just the next phase.
- rr808 4y agoGluing yourself to art - so hot right now.
- agilob 4y agoGluing yourself to expensive cars, so cold and dark when employees leave. https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/21/climate-protesters-glue-themselves-to-porsche-museum-germany/ https://www.autoblog.com/2022/10/21/climate-protesters-glue-...
- rad_gruchalski 4y ago> a group called Scientist Rebellion took the sticky route when nine members glued their hands to the floor of the Porsche pavilion at Volkswagen's Autostadt museum in Wolfsburg Gluing yourself to the floor.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoI like to imagine at least one of the instances is insurance fraud, and the owners are finding a creative way to cash out. Much easier to convice someone to destroy it under the ploy of climate change than to steal it.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoDestroy what, the glass protecting the painting? Title is clickbait, no paintings were actually harmed in any way.
- JPKab 4y agoYou're right. It's narcissistic, self-aggrandizing performance art for people who desperately seek attention and validation, without putting in effort or sustained, deliberate sacrifice.
- 1ris 4y agoIt's funny that you can say that about pretty much all art.
- educaysean 4y ago> without putting in effort or sustained, deliberate sacrifice Ah, the hubris of 21st century software engineers
- 1ris 4y ago"I/My kid/My dog could have done that" is something that is said to artists since the dawn of time. It's a universal sentiment. I'm not saying it's true. I'm saying it is said.
- JPKab 4y agoNo, because this is "art" involving destroying art.