John Wood, Paul Harrison, paper and a sanding machine
Documentary trailer. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Urban intervention by a collaboration of artists calling themselves Brakay !. Created during the Fame Festival.
via Junk Culture
St. Vincent Cruel
From Yoko Ono to Lady Gaga: how pop embraced performance art - article from the Guardian.
“ Thirty-five years later, a musician spawned by performance art is adored rather than despised. Lady Gaga describes her appearance at the 2009 MTV Awards, during which she appeared to bleed to death from a gash on her stomach while singing Paparazzi as “a performance art piece that re-enacted the death of celebrity in front of all America”. Cosey Fanni Tutti – not a fan – probably wouldn’t thank you for pointing it out, but it doesn’t seem too distant from Coum Transmissions’ 70s experiments with fake blood and wounds and simulated suicides. Gaga’s interest in performance art seems to have had an unexpected effect on the mainstream audience: when she mentioned Abramovic in an interview, the artist says, her Moma retrospective was suddenly flooded with “this enormous audience of kids between 12 and 18 spending hours there”. Abramovic adds: “She’s really a phenomenon. With the costumes, the blood, everything, she’s really looking to art, and she’s generous enough to say where the interest is coming from, which Madonna will never do.” - Guardian, Thursday 7 July 2011 by Alexis Petridis
Wow, that cat can jump! via boogie blog
