> A fair chunk of their output (that I saw) was commentary on other stuff (performers/performances/other) which is pretty much commodity content for easy consum

> A fair chunk of their output (that I saw) was commentary on other stuff (performers/performances/other) which is pretty much commodity content for easy consumption, not really art¹. In what way is this excluded from being art? These are overlapping categories. I do get your point. However, this might be incidental to the art they want to produce rather than central to their project.