George wrote:
>If I remember correctly I think Chris Burden once crucified himself on the
back of a Volkswagen Beetle.<
Yep there's a picture at the same site as one of the actionist links I
posted the other day:
http://users.hartwick.edu/stoltea/images.htm
scroll down, it's the 3rd picture down
Yep he did that one, had a friend shoot him, walked through broken glass and
had lots of fun experiences trying to electrocute himself.
George Free wrote:
If I remember correctly I think Chris Burden once crucified himself on the
back of a Volkswagen Beetle.
> >
> >And don't people in some p
>
>And don't people in some parts of the philipines actually crucify
themselves
>during holy week.
If I remember correctly I think Chris Burden once crucified himself on the
back of a Volkswagen Beetle.
Hi Alex,
You wrote:
>I know of a couple other examples of killing off animals in the name of
art.
Joe Coleman came to pulic noteriety by killing (and maybe eating live) mice
...<
Thanks for these examples but they tend to be quite mild compared to the
facts that the actionists were disembow
> latest Art News, there was a little blurb about an artist who set up a
> number of blenders with goldfish in them, and was shocked when people in the
> gallery actually turned them on and killed the fish. Another artist, John
Wouldnt mix this with the other cases.
> Jeffries, in his MFA sho
Certainly the
>Actionists were the only ones to kill and disembowel animals in the name of
>art as well as explore a range of unusual social and sexual behaviour that
>even today many would still consider shocking.
I know of a couple other examples of killing off animals in the name of art.
Joe
Hi all,
After Alex's post yesterday I've been musing on the Vienna Actionists some
more and dug out a load of links for you to pursue if you're interested.
I think the Actionists work is fairly problematic...obviously there are
certain elements which have no moral or ethical issues attached but
Hi all,
Here's another link about the book I mentioned in response to Alex's post,
this gives a little more info at
http://www.atlaspress.co.uk/arkhive7.html
cheers,
Sol.
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