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2005-07-22 Europe

Audience boos and walks out at art festival -- in France

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Posted by Seafarious 2005-07-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Let me guess it's government funded too.
2 screwings for the price of one.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-07-22 00:03|| 2005-07-22 00:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Sounds like a rousing success!

Screw the common people - Art is not for them.

Posted by gromky">gromky 2005-07-22 00:27|| http://communistposters.com/]">[http://communistposters.com/] 2005-07-22 00:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Reminds me of one chapter of David Sedaris' Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2005-07-22 00:33|| 2005-07-22 00:33|| Front Page Top

#4 "a tiny in-crowd, drunk on its own pathetic audacity"

Sums up the elites, of all stripes, rather nicely.

Posted by .com 2005-07-22 01:10|| 2005-07-22 01:10|| Front Page Top

#5 In 2004 and earlier this year, there was a "theater" danced performance called "The crying body", original title, by Jan Fabre (who offered anew piece at the Avignon festival, themed around blood this time), in which basically the dancers urinated on stage, spat on each others, simulated sex, and masturbated in front of the audience, with of course a nod at christianity, as one dancer was dressed as a priest.
This caused a stir in some conservative circles, but didn't truly reverberate in the MSM (the piece was judged "contreversial", tough, but was liked by "Le monde" or the city of Paris art department). Link to a critical article (in french) http://www.france-echos.com/actualite.php?cle=3231

Of course, this was gvt-funded, and the then minister of art and culture (yes, we got one), Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres was of course one of the spectators (who included some children)... and was splattered with p*ss along with the first row as the dancers jumped in the poddles they had just made on stage... somehow, there is a moral in that... if that isn't decadent art, then I don't know what it is.

Posted by anonymous5089 2005-07-22 03:51|| 2005-07-22 03:51|| Front Page Top

#6 How far the French have come from the riot at the premiere of "The Rite of Spring." Pro-Stravinsky patrons battled protestors to the point that the dancers could not hear the orchestra. There is hope for arts yet.

Posted by SR-71 2005-07-22 09:12|| 2005-07-22 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 It is long past time for a total overhaul of art in the West. Pop artists are now nothing more than scatalogical humorists--their minimalist, redundant, and derivative art philisophy is best demonstrated in Penn Jillette's "The Aristocrats" movie, but even that is better than the usual crapola, because at least it has a sense of control, editing, and direction. More than anything else, artists need to be expelled from the United States, and forced to live somewhere else for even a few months, just to see life, any life, beyond their tiny realities. They need to see, if not experience firsthand, real human emotions, the highs and lows of real people. They need to see nature, and not on television. They need to sweat, feel hungry when they want to eat and can't, be surrounded by those who don't speak English, and have to struggle just to get by. Send them to South America, send them to Africa, then them to SE Asia or Oceania. The quality of their art would skyrocket.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-07-22 10:45|| 2005-07-22 10:45|| Front Page Top

#8 "a triumphant sense of masturbatory autism."

Gad, even the commies went for 'em with a pick handle. It must've been bad...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-07-22 12:15|| 2005-07-22 12:15|| Front Page Top

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