12-02-2014, 12:22 AM
(Edited 12-02-2014, 12:32 AM by meridannight.)
i don't have a taste for performance art at all. i think the whole thing is rather morbid and not really what it purports to be. but other than my opinion on it, these things are all pretty much the same, and they're really boring. and it's not art. we're studying this thing as part of one of our classes right now, and this isn't anything new here. at least they didn't seem to put a handgun and bullets there to be used on him by the audience.
the whole thing is supposed to let the members of the audience do whatever they want to the subject, in this case Shia. that's the thing about performance art, you give the audience the opportunity to complete the ''work of art''. the subject is not supposed to stop them, even if they get a gun pointed at them. rape and killing are ''allowed'' (not really, but technically they are and they're fully claimed to be an adequate completion for the ''art'').
maybe he really was raped. i don't know what was his deal with the producer of the show, but they might have had an agreement he wouldn't interfere with anything the audience is doing to him.... i don't know, i would of course interfere, but i wouldn't be stupid enough to take part in these things in the first place. also, he might not have felt violated until after the thing had taken place. this performance ''art'' thing places the subject out of their element, into an environment they are not familiar with. their senses are thus a bit off, and they might not actually realize the full implications of what is happening to them until after it has happened.
the whole thing is supposed to let the members of the audience do whatever they want to the subject, in this case Shia. that's the thing about performance art, you give the audience the opportunity to complete the ''work of art''. the subject is not supposed to stop them, even if they get a gun pointed at them. rape and killing are ''allowed'' (not really, but technically they are and they're fully claimed to be an adequate completion for the ''art'').
maybe he really was raped. i don't know what was his deal with the producer of the show, but they might have had an agreement he wouldn't interfere with anything the audience is doing to him.... i don't know, i would of course interfere, but i wouldn't be stupid enough to take part in these things in the first place. also, he might not have felt violated until after the thing had taken place. this performance ''art'' thing places the subject out of their element, into an environment they are not familiar with. their senses are thus a bit off, and they might not actually realize the full implications of what is happening to them until after it has happened.