NEWS: The Self-Mutilation Artist

Yea you should read my first post, it kind of sums up what you said. Since then I have been called stupid, jealous, sexist, and a bastard for making thinking this. I still stand by the fact that she should blow her brains out on a canvas if she's so damn set on dieing for art like she says she is. I'd totally put her on a higher level then all the people she's still trying to be.

Nevermind, I'll edit out what I wanted to say. If you think that your point about her art was why I implied you were sexist, feel free to think that. I'll just say that your spelling is on level with your comprehension. The last word is yours.

[Edited on Nov 08, 2005 by PointBlank]

fuck spelling first of all. And fuck people who can only insult individuals rather then attempt to debate the points of an argument. Your insults are wonderful in that they distract from the actual conversation. Your claims are baseless in that they do NOTHING to disprove my argument other then insult my ability to read. It is as if you have taken lessons from Fox News, and the current Murdoch style of debate.

Yea I was being deliberately ABSTRACT, I wouldn't say obtuse is the right word considering that while it was blunt, it was also thought out and very contrived. Considering that art is my life, that I consider everything I do to be art, that I love the viewer/reader/individual's reaction to my work, it is safe to say that there may have been more to the post that so pissed you off then meets the eye. It's also safe to say that if you want to get into an intellectual debate about the merits of the performance artists movement, whether or not it was art, and if art is actually about being "new" or rather about making pretty pictures, it is pretty safe to say that this discussion will take more then a single post. In that way then, yes, I guess your right. The comment was somewhat "obtuse" only in that it takes longer to discuss art then then what the Internet allows. One could say that it takes even longer when you have to continually respond to baseless and unsupported insults that keep randomly popping like a troll under a bridge.

As for spelling. Theodore Rossevelt once fired a member of his cabinet for playing the "spelling game". There was tension between two members on the staff, one kept using the other's short coming in the area of spelling to avoid debate and make his opponent look stupid. I think Rossevelt's response can be paraphrased as consisting of: In this day and age spelling is the least of my concerns, you can take your leave now so that we may get back to the real issues at hand here.

[Edited on Nov 08, 2005 by heresy200]

I agree. Perhaps we're too obsessed with "pretty" around here. Art is often not pretty at all.

I think it'll be interesting partly because she's repeating herself.

At the time, the original must have seemed like a one-time only event, because who else would ever be crazy enough to do that? Also you'll have a whole new batch of people who know all about how the first one ended and were thinking "If only I had been alive/in the know back then, I would've done this." She might get shot in the face within the first 15 minutes this time around.

Maybe if you died WHILE taking the shit...?

Just because I enjoy sadistically adding fuel to the fire, I believe Thomas Jefferson once said, “I’ll never trust a man who knows only one spelling for a word.”

thats genius! thats one of the things i miss about being in the states, not being able to turn on the tv and watch 10 episodes on law and order any time of the day. but i feel like i've just seen a whole show! *applause*

I don’t think they are comparable. Tattoos, piercings and scarification all leave a lasting, and generally attractive, permanent mark on the body. It takes great skill to leave a good tatt or scar pattern. The canvas is the body, and the art is the ink or scars.

However, in this case, the marks left on the body are neither skillful, attractive nor THE POINT. The “art” in question is the act of self mutilation itself...done publicly, randomly and pointlessly.

She is nothing more than self destructive, self mutilator, who likes to “do it” in front of other people.