No, it's silent stripping. Performance art and all that, don'tcha know?
A mime stripper ("silent stripper") does have an excellent possibility of
winning the #30,000 Turner Award first prize. The last winner I recall
contributed to the culture vultures of this planet an empty room, the lights
of which went on and off on a 30-second cycle. A plaque in front of the room
read, "The lights go on; the lights go off." I always felt that the
electrician who rewired the lights should have won the award.
The same artiste earlier in his career would sign his name to a piece of
tablet paper which he would crunch into a ball and then give to friends and
acquaintances as gifts. Today an unfolded tablet paper with autograph sells
for about #1,500 at art auctions, while one that has allegedly never been
unfolded brings #3,000. How one verifies the work of art I have no idea.
I thought how wonderful it would be to have "The lights go on; the lights go
off" at a gallery display of other modern objects d'art, such as:
* Works of the Japanese artist who spilled paints of different colors
all around his canvas and then rode his bicycle through individual pools and
onto his masterpiece,
* Works of a different Japanese artist who dipped his pigtail into cans
of paint of differing colors and then swirled it onto his canvas,
* A framed portrait of ----- nothing. The entire canvas was covered
with whiteout and nothing else, and
* Six identical urinals attached in a row to a green wall.
Unfortunately for the gallery, several of New York City's most famous chic art
experts mistook the objects d'art for fully functional urinals. They were
not.
"Behold I am become Death,
the shatterer of worlds." - Vishnu,
in the Hindu Bhagavad Gita.
David Hanwell
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Is that a stripper without music?
David Logan
Database Administrator
HP Managed Services
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Adelaide 5000
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-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, 4 May 2004 1:02 PM EDT
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Sorry folks ... just testing to make sure the mime stripper is working
properly.
Larry Hiscock
Western Computer Services
http://www.wcs-corp.com/
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