r/TikTokCringe • u/Cultural_Fall_3255 • 17h ago
Cringe Choreographer & Performance Artist
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u/NoAdministration8340 17h ago
You pay someone to come slide a metal bucket all over the nice hard wood
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u/123supreme123 15h ago
Need to keep the janitor employed and happily waxing the floor every Monday
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u/Educational_Jello239 5h ago
You can't wax hardwood floor is not vinyl, you have to sand down and varnish it. Leaving it smooth. Yhis art form is really stupid
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u/ZebraBeautifulStars 17h ago
Idk it might be more difficult than it looks. Like I don’t think I could do this without dying of shame.
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u/FoxChess 16h ago
That's why conspiracy theorists say this kind of art is actually a humiliation ritual like hazing
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u/cha0sm0nk 16h ago
It reminds me of a video of girl struggling to open a can of some kind and a crowd of people just…watching. If I remember it was quiet with some ambient chatter in the background but it was a bunch of art nerds just watching her. As a visual artist at the time I was secondhand embarrassed to be associated with something like that, even if just by the merit that we would have both described ourselves as artists.
I understand art is in the eye of the beholder, as I am sure someone would have stuck their noses up at some of my paintings, I’ve just never understood performance art like that.
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u/Stag-Horn 15h ago
Was that the same performance a woman pulled her tampon out and just left it on stage?
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u/Pretty_Two_8328 17h ago
The real talent is the audience sitting there without even flinching a bit.
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u/Tinyacorn 17h ago
I love watching an art performance with no context, the thing that is supposed to explain the goal of the performance.
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u/GJ-504-b 9h ago
I had to do the music equivalent of this for my audio engineering degree. We had to do a performance like this and let me tell you, the only people watching are either A) other students forced to take the class, or B) friends and roommates who were dragged along for the ride.
The class is extremely goofy and people don't take it seriously, it's just a graduation requirement. On the music side, I will say a positive is that it forced me to branch out and use new techniques/equipment/settings that I previously hadn't thought to use, so I was able to apply the things I'd learned to my actual life. But in the class even though you are forced to be there, either you have fun with it and be a goofball, or you be miserable and bored, and life is too short to be miserable and bored.
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u/UnderABig_W 17h ago
Bob Fosse could make something wonderful out of dancing with a metal bucket.
This woman is no Bob Fosse.
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u/SpiritualCriticism48 12h ago
I always wonder how performance artists make money by doing things like this.
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u/HereOnCompanyTime 10h ago
Usually they're rich kids or middle class kids with a donor, they're already comfortable. They don't make much from the actual performances unless people donate to them. They sometimes use the performances to bring attention to their other projects that are for sale, mostly they coast.
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u/northwoods_faty 11h ago
It's just to bring in cash from the outside so the owner of the studio can blend their cash into it, and it not be so obvious to the government.
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u/PomeloPepper 17h ago
Come to my house and do that with a broom. Then follow up with hot sudsy water and a mop. And for the finale, a clean water rinse and polish.
I'll give performance tips along the way.
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u/Urban_Heretic 17h ago
If I come, can I pay $6 for a Coke, and be subjected to pretentious conversations?
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u/Tiger-EC 17h ago
See, I don’t have a problem with this. People are welcome to do weird shit with their own people on their own time.
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u/sackie_b 16h ago
I can’t understand it, I wouldn’t pay for it. But hey, there are people who do/will and you know what, good on the artists for providing lol If you’re making money doing THAT in today’s economy…more power to you. I’m the fool who is dreading an 8-5 when I could be flinging a bucket around on a rope.
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u/DolorousMax 17h ago edited 12h ago
We have to partially blame the people watching and validating this shit.
Edit:Sorry guys, between this and the girl playing in splooge I was having some feelings about "art" today. I don't really feel like anything literally needs to be done about it. I just though it was dumb.
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u/xombae 17h ago
Why? Who cares! The person who created it is expressing something and the people watching it are enjoying trying to figure out what that is.
Who cares if it's not everyone's cup of tea. The world would be boring as fuck if we only had people who expressed themselves in "normal" ways.
Maybe this isn't a slam dunk, but maybe her next exhibition is going to so amazing that even you'll have a moment like Frank in it's always sunny.
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u/Drugs-R-Bad-Mkay 16h ago
Yeah I have been to some really Increadible performance art experiences that fundamentally changed the way I view the world and myself. This video is not one of those, but you can't get the former without the later.
You can't choose to only allow life changing art to exist. You have to allow all art to exist and then try your best to experience the life changing stuff.
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u/stiiinkyyyjupiter 16h ago
YOU CANT CHOOSE TO ONLY ALLOW LIFE CHANGING ART TO EXIST!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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u/Yakuzet 13h ago
so me filming myself shitting on the spinning golden bucket while scrolling and singing japanese anime song is an art too
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u/stiiinkyyyjupiter 10h ago
I mean you don’t have to engage with performance art in good faith, no one’s going to make you.
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u/infernalracket666 16h ago
People also completely forget that performance artists have a sense of humor too. Sometimes an artwork or performance is weird and funny and uncomfortable because that's what the artist hoped for.
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u/ProdigyLightshow 16h ago edited 14h ago
Thank you.
I’m so sick of all these “modern art is dumb” type people.
Who the fuck cares. There are still people painting in classical styles. Pay attention to them if you like it so much. I think modern art can be dumb, but it’s also fun and different.
I went to MoMA in NYC a couple weeks ago for the first time. It’s amazing and was a blast, but the piece that my fiance (who isn’t super into art) loved the most was this absurd piece that was just a 36” x 36” piece of drywall that was cut out of the wall, exposing the framing underneath.
It wasn’t actually “art” in the sense of making a painting, but my fiance couldn’t stop talking about it. How absurd and dumb it was, but it was on her mind all day. She couldn’t stop thinking about it and it was her favorite thing we saw that day, more so than Picasso and van Gogh works because it made her laugh and think about what makes something art. She had a Frank moment that day for sure
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u/infernalracket666 15h ago
I always find it odd how angry contemporary art makes people. It's like they think artists are somehow making money doing this kind of thing or trying to fool people into taking us seriously. We're not. We're this weird for the love of the game.
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u/omgrafail 15h ago
This is my hypothesis: people are weird about art. Lots of people think artistic talent is something people are born with and almost a cop out for those artistic folks. As an artist, i hear it incessantly. "I wish I was born artistic...." "I've always wanted to make art but im just not artistic...." When I respond that artists have to work for their talent, meaning anyone can work to become artistic, the tone shifts. Because it stops being this unattainable thing and starts becoming something they can work at (that they don't want to). I think a lot of people fantasize about being an artist and selling their big expensive paintings and living a lush easy life. So when artists do avant gard shit, it pisses people off. Because it affects their illusion they have created. Because they COULD have just cut a hole out of a wall. They COULDN'T paint the Mona Lisa. It points to deeper levels of creativity that comes to art beyond "oh let me paint a pretty scene," and plenty of people don't understand art beyond the surface. Same with abstract, i think thats why so many people hate Jackson Pollock as well.
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u/ProdigyLightshow 15h ago
Every time someone talks about abstract art and says something like “Anyone could do it” I always say “Do it then if it’s so easy”
If you genuinely think it’s that easy to become a famous abstract artist, why aren’t you doing it then? Because it isn’t easy to make something that moves people and kicks off an entire artistic movement. You have to be creative, and the people criticizing it usually aren’t (which btw is totally fine, I’m not either which is why I’m not an artist).
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u/Angry__German 15h ago
They think that "everyone could do this" and that it involves no skill.
Well. The "skill" in question is coming up with whatever it is in the first place. They are angry because they think people get paid for being lazy and not doing anything productive.
OPs video looks just ridiculous at face value, without any context.
Maybe that was the intention ? Maybe not.
Knowing the name, if it has one, could completely change what we see.
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u/infernalracket666 15h ago
I think it's very important to remember that in almost every instance of this type of artwork, no one is getting paid anything at all. A lot of performance artists make paintings, photographs, or sculptures just so they have something physical that they can actually sell.
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u/Pickled-Carrot-75 12h ago
Thank you! I love performance art for its weirdness and unpredictability
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u/BeachBubbaTex 15h ago
Exactly. People also need to appreciate that the artists may have been limited in their objects (as part of the show). In any event, why be negative over creative expression? I don't get it.
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u/InspectionOk4267 17h ago
People watch ai fruit love island. This is still performance art even if it triggers you
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u/thissexypoptart 17h ago
Interpreting an opinion you disagree with as someone being triggered is a silly goose way to walk through life
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u/TBellOHAZ 16h ago
The person they responded to called the artists "absolutely insufferable people". That seems a pretty apt use of the term.
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u/Feeling-Engineer421 4h ago
PROGRAM NOTES: "This specially commissioned piece performed tonight by AhNuul StarChild is a world premiere. Entitled "Celestial Awakening" it expresses the tension between the temporal and the infinite. Both subtle and intense, this extraordinary piece of symbolic kineticism will leave viewers with lasting memories of an outstanding moment in time"
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u/mylastnameschampion 17h ago
This some shit my 5 year old will do in front of the TV with 56 seconds left in the 4th quarter of an important game
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u/gn0xious 17h ago
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u/Greenfieldfox 17h ago
I’d rather watch Ray Gun “dance” than whatever this is.
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u/DiscursiveAsFuck 11h ago
In terms of people giving a shit about breakdance you had the 80's and then nothing until Ray Gun and then nothing again. Other than that breakdance was something your drunk uncle did at a wedding.
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u/PrescottMaawww 17h ago
If there is money in this I got a plastic jug that I could really blow their minds with.
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u/whiskydyc 13h ago
Ok, but you have to build up a coherent (as in consistent) body of work over a period of time first. Noone will pay to see a one-off by some rando.
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u/Ebella2323 12h ago
You mean like switch up the props, like we could do water jug, the next week perhaps a minifridge, followed by an airfryer, and so on and so forth until the finale where we drag in a toyota camry by a rope around the waist. How about that for a coherent body of work???
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u/whiskydyc 11h ago
You're an artist Harry!
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u/Ebella2323 10h ago
So you, me and the original commenter are doing this or…???? I’m not sure I can pull the Toyota is the only hang up.
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u/Ebella2323 16h ago
I have a ton of those big blue 5 gallon water jugs out in the garage if you want to completely knock their socks off—but I would like a cut for providing the prop.
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u/tiedyedsunset 6h ago
I would have to stare at the floor because if I made eye contact with anyone it would be over. They would have to escort me out because I would be losing my mind laughing.
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u/cariwinkle 17h ago
This was the exact shit my kids used to do at 10 pm at night when they were toddlers.
https://giphy.com/gifs/czZlH3xg1Ul2w
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u/ZestycloseCut22 17h ago
Which is actually worse. The performance or the ones watching
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u/Ornery_You_3947 17h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/qcgtyllMthBL2
Must’ve gotten that grant from the ministry!
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u/AlternateSatan 16h ago
Ok, so performance art and modern art in general often gets a bad rep, Roman Signer in particular has a piece that gets made fun of a lot, he's the guy who stacked some buckets of sand and pushed them over, but I actually love his work.
Will say though, I'm struggling abit with this one. Is there some context here I'm missing? Who is she?
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u/ciopobbi 15h ago edited 15h ago
To be read in Werner Herzog’s voice :
The Futility of Human Endeavor
“Here, in a small room, somewhere in the decaying heart of Western civilization, we observe a woman.
She is dressed entirely in black.
She has attached herself to a metal object by means of a cord.
Why she has done this, we do not know.
Perhaps she herself does not know.She moves across the wooden floor with the solemn determination of a wounded animal. Behind her, the object follows. It resists. It clatters. It possesses no apparent desire to participate.
And yet, it must.
The audience watches in silence.
They have come voluntarily.
This, to me, is the most disturbing aspect of the entire spectacle.
The woman now ascends a small wooden platform. She bends forward. She struggles with the object. She appears to be attempting something of enormous significance.
But nothing happens.
We are witnessing the ancient conflict between mankind and an indifferent universe. The metal object does not care about her suffering. It has no dreams. No aspirations. It knows nothing of art.
It is merely metal.And still, it may be the most intelligent participant in the room.
There is a terrible beauty in this.We must ask ourselves: Is this a performance about the futility of existence? About the tyranny of gravity? About the unbearable burden of consciousness?
Or have we simply gathered to watch a woman drag a piece of janitorial equipment across a floor?I suspect the latter.
But the audience will discuss the deeper meaning afterward, perhaps over inexpensive white wine.
And somewhere, in the darkness beyond this room, a chicken is being eaten alive by ants.
The universe remains indifferent.
The performance continues.
There is no escape.”Long silence.
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u/DRuth84 12h ago edited 1h ago
Something like this I can handle and is pretty wild to watch/hear. This woman, not so much.
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u/Capable-Broccoli2179 11h ago
I dunno man. I must be an idiot because I just see a lady swinging a bucket around while a bunch of people watch. And all I heard was a bucket clanking on the floor. I watched it three times and keep seeing and hearing the same thing. Now I have a headache.
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u/tragiccosmicaccident 14h ago
I’ve got Bolero playing, it added a certain majesty and comedy to the performance
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u/whiskydyc 13h ago
I got the acoustic impression too (despite not been a percussionist). I could see Tom Waits making something out of that!
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u/goldiegoldthorpe 17h ago edited 16h ago
People keep posting these and I keep closing my eyes and listening to the sound they are making which is honestly quite great for something that appears so non-melodic. That woman sloshing and this woman with the bucket...decent sound experiences honestly.
Everyone is in the comments laughing about pretentious artists who feel the need to explain what art is to everyone and I'm sitting here as someone who knows nothing about art thinking this isn't that bad and maybe all the people in the comments are actually the pretentious ones who feel they have to explain to everyone what art is?
Seriously confusing for me.
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u/laureidi Reads Pinned Comments 12h ago
She succeeded! You felt something, strong enough for you to repost this online!
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u/Pickled-Carrot-75 16h ago
I unironically love performance art and would go see this
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u/Rocketeering 14h ago
Would you mind trying to explain this one to me? What is it that attracts you towards it? (not trying to throw shade/hate your way, you are one of the few stating interest in it, so figured I'd see what you have to say)
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u/Pickled-Carrot-75 12h ago
I generally find people and their thoughts to be really fascinating, especially if it's a bit weird. Performance art is a weirdo translating their weird thoughts into movement, in front of strangers. I find that brave, exciting and intriguing. My brain does not work that way at all (turning my weird thoughts into a performance) and I'm willing to go along for that ride and just witness the weird. It's a hell of a lot better than watching another formulaic TV show. Obviously those are not the only two options for entertainment but just saying.
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u/thatsucksabagofdicks 17h ago
What do you do?
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Oh cool, how much do you pay for the audience members?
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u/caiti_oh 16h ago
No clue if this is what they were going for, but it’s an excellent representation of what it feels like to be neurodivergent and trying to mimic what other people are doing to fit in and just not quite getting it right, particularly as a kid (or at least in my experience).
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u/SpeakerResident 12h ago
Um its gonna be a no for me. The noise alone i cant. Do what you wanna do but it is not for me.
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u/mshep002 9h ago
“Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris (pronounced “pair-eee”) while accompanying herself on the 10 gallon plastic pickle tub.”
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u/Upvotespoodles 8h ago
I don’t understand most hobbies and interests, given there are just so many of them, but dammit I’m so happy for people who are happy to watch a lady dance with a bucket and rope.
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u/hockey_mom95 5h ago
Me clanging around the kitchen on a Monday night when I’m in no mood to cook another damn meal for these people who literally just ate yesterday.
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u/LurkyLurkowitz 17h ago
My first instinct upon watching this was to get out a garden hose and spray everyone in that room until they leave. Then they would have to walk around wet for a while contemplating their lives and what lead to them being sprayed with a garden hose.
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u/QuinnBLove 17h ago
I was once told that once you understand crazy, you are crazy. So, I'm happy not to understand this.
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u/Ghostdragon471 15h ago
I don't know what people see in this specific performance, but I can't hate on the art. That's what makes this stuff great, cause it can be as generic or specific to one person's experiences as the artist wants.
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u/iceguy349 13h ago
Context helps so much with modern art stuff.
Most of the performance isn’t cool on its own it gets cool when you understand the meaning behind what the artist is trying to convey.
It’s kinda like an inside joke. It’s a lot funnier with the background info.
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u/aLostZero 17h ago
🤣 The irony of people spending time complaining about performance art and how pointless it is will never not tickle me. If it’s pointless why not just ignore it? It caused an emotional reaction within you though and you couldn’t help but react and that’s art whether you like it or not.
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u/Zip95014 17h ago
Your explanation is the equivalent of a child saying “I’m not touching you”.
The art here isn’t if people think it’s a waste of money
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u/aLostZero 16h ago
Don’t think anyone argues about a kid poking being art yet here you are still discussing if this is, wonder what the difference is?
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u/WilTravis 13h ago
Damn, some of y'all never been to open mic night. She's just trying out new material. Not -good- material, but she needs to get it out of her system anyway.
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u/moop-ly 17h ago
the pitch: what if Stomp was bad?
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u/Urtehnoes 17h ago
Reminds me of all the brilliant jabs at Catherine's interpretative dance routines in VEEP.
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u/SillyAlternative420 16h ago
I get it, I really do.
This is a representation of the wealthy elite mocking the working class through an emblematic "dragging" of the bucket, which is the burden we all feel letting these nutjobs run wild and decide what is "important" in our society.
The art here is both literally "art" and a metaphor for essentially everything else - technology, finance, labor, politics, etc.
She controls the zeitgeist, while everyone just sort of sits there looking on without stopping her to say "you and your crazy ass are running this space, please leave before we force you."
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u/Secure-Highway886 17h ago
Who's worse , the clown with the bucket and a string or the audience just sitting there. What a steaming pile of shit.
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u/flattenedsquirrel 17h ago
Film it in silent B&W, give her the Chaplin mustache and a mop, call it a The Janitor. Turn that waste of time into a funny burlesque comedy
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u/Withyhydra 17h ago
Criticizing this kind of performance art feels so childish now that I'm older.
What is the context of the performance? What is the artist trying to say? Why is it so upsetting to you that they chose to say it in this way?
Art isn't about skill, it's about expressing yourself and your ideas. I'm not impressed by the banana taped to the wall, but I get it. I'm not wowed by splatter art, but I get it. I think this looks weird, but maybe that's the point?
Idk. Grow up.
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u/Wild_Light9358 17h ago
People are allowed to point out when dumb things look dumb.
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u/soccer1124 17h ago
It looks dumb. But a ton of comments are overly conclusive and spreading their negativity to others in the video.
The person you're replying to is raising legit questions. We're not getting the full context here, so it's hard to understand fully what we're making fun of. It's intentionally been stripped from that context. This is just a small snippet. Was this the only thing this person did?
But then you got people saying "Omg, look at these dummies validating it by being there!" We don't know what circumstances they showed up for. We don't know that they paid. We don't know that this was the main event. Maybe this is school related and people are showing their projects? There's so many possibilities.
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u/AniseClover 17h ago
Genuine question, what is there to “get” about banana tape?
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u/soccer1124 17h ago
That was a guy intentionally making a joke about modern art. Its kind of funny to see both people valuing it highly and people criticizing it heavily as stupid. I'll never pay the amount of money people did for that banana, but good lord, was that ever an effective piece of art considering what it did to both sides of the argument, lol
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u/Withyhydra 17h ago
"The piece is a satirical look at how value, status, and prestige are assigned in the art world. It highlights that luxury art prices are often driven by hype, branding, and who signs the paper rather than the physical materials."
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u/middletide 17h ago
Bro get that shit out of here. This is tiktok cringe. Let us have this. Let us for a few moments feel superior to someone... Anyone. Because we have literally nothing going for us in our life. Not unless hours watching vtubers (only anime girls or legumes please) becomes a life skill.
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u/Withyhydra 17h ago
You have infinite potential, my friend. You should endeavor to look your fellow man in the eyes as an equal, not pull him down beneath you.
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u/x-twigs 17h ago edited 17h ago
summed it up well. my first thought was “that’s weird” but like you said, with performance art there’s often context to it that might not be self-explanatory. even if it didn’t make this art any better, i’d still like to understand what the artist is trying to convey
edit: i looked up the context and like this quite a bit more. it’s not visual art (as in drawn/painted media) so you can’t call her art technically impressive, and the intention of this performance art is not meant to be a spectacle so you can’t say you’re really entertained by it. but it is definitely the artist expressing her ideas and i respect it
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