in their survey of "action art" a couple years ago. One particularly
memorable piece from that show was the French guy who canned his own feces
and sold it as "artist's shit," with the price fixed to the price of gold. I
"Merde a'artist", a classic. Wouldnt mix it with the other stuff.
H.
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One particularly
memorable piece from that show was the French guy who canned his own
feces
and sold it as "art
Surely there's a difference between a Dadaist who disrupts
a theatre performance
and a heckler who spoils everyone's enjoyment?
Or is there?
Interesting point - Didn't Breton break someone's arm while disrupting a
Tzara performance? And his work is in MOMA. Though MOMA probably won't
Though MOMA
probably won't
let the Viennese Actionists in. I missed mo***mento's
post--perhaps it
was a asciionist event. --rosalie
Don't know about MOMA, but the MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) here in
L.A. included some vivid leftovers of the Viennese Actionists' cow-hacking
in
One particularly
memorable piece from that show was the French guy who canned his own feces
and sold it as "artist's shit," with the price fixed to the price of gold.
Manzoni, I think, perhaps Piero Manzoni? I found a website of the cans
that included some discussion on the difficulties
Manzoni, I think, perhaps Piero Manzoni? I found a website
of the cans
that included some discussion on the difficulties such
artwork poses for
the museum curator. But Manzoni's a conceptual artist, so who knows?
Maybe the cans are filled with conceptual waste. But I
believe the cans
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