useless_modern_god

joined 1 year ago
 

πŸ‘‰Wim Delvoye wiki

πŸ‘‰The Conversation article at MONA, Hobart, Tasmania

Cloaca is a large installation that turns food into feces, allowing artist Wim Delvoye to explore the digestive process. In his large mechanism, food begins at a long, transparent bowl (mouth), travels through a number of machine-like assembly stations, and ends in hard matter which is separated from liquid through a cylinder. Delvoye collects and sells the realistically smelling output.

 

πŸ‘‰BoredPanda article with portraits

πŸ‘‰wiki

In 2000, Bryan painted tens of self-portraits whilst being on mind-altering drugs, and so, "Under The Influence" was born. Within weeks, he became lethargic and suffered mild brain damage. Saunders even became a frequent guest at the hospital. Nevertheless, he continued drawing. The artist sought "experiences that might profoundly affect his perception of self" and when you see just how different each of the drawings from "Under The Influence" is, you can't help but think he succeeded. Saunders said the brain damage resulted in "psychomotor retardation and confusion," but at least it was repairable. He's still conducting this experiment, but over greater lapses of time

 

πŸ‘‰wiki

πŸ‘‰Tate Article

Instructions: There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired.

Performance: I am the object. During this period I take full responsibility.

Duration: 6 hours (8pm–2am.) Studio Morra, Naples

[–] useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ooh what is that? I like the font on those.

 

πŸ‘‰wiki

πŸ‘‰The GUARDIAN article

Pantone 448 C is a colour in the Pantone colour system. Described as a drab dark brown and informally dubbed the "ugliest colour in the world", it was selected in 2012 as the colour for plain tobacco and cigarette packaging in Australia, after market researchers determined that it was the least attractive colour.

 

πŸ‘‰ Garage Gallery

πŸ‘‰ Taryn Simon wiki

Taryn Simon collaborated with Russia’s State Atomic Energy Corporation (ROSATOM) to prepare a work of art made from nuclear material. In the year 3015, approximately one thousand years after its creation, a black square made from vitrified nuclear waste will be permanently displayed at Garage in a custom designed void that has been integrated into the new museum building.

 

πŸ‘‰ Boston.com article

πŸ‘‰ Wiki

On the morning of January 31, 2007, the Boston Police Department and the Boston Fire Department mistakenly identified battery-powered LED placards depicting the Mooninites, characters from the Adult Swim animated television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, as improvised explosive devices (IEDs), leading to a massive panic.

 

πŸ‘‰A beginners guide to brandalism

πŸ‘‰wiki

πŸ‘‰B.U.G.A.U.P. Australia

In the late 1970s in San Francisco, one group decided enough was enough. The idea of β€œculture jamming” began when a loosely-knit group of underground guerilla artists set out to fight the tsunami of media imagery thought to be turning us into passive consumers. United against the idea that corporations could legally administer poison gas to the unconsenting psyche where and whenever they chose, they formed the Billboard Liberation Front.

 

Mark Pauline is an undisputed mastermind when it comes to sticking it to the man. For the past thirty years, he's been mesmerizing audiences and machinophiles around the world with his terrifying and satirical machine-based performances. Offering an alternative outlet for would-be war machines and their engineers, Pauline's Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is a performance art group that re-appropriates these tools of weaponized industry into objects of pure entertainment. Their shows are a cacophonous melee of fast spinning parts, large projectiles, and explosions... did we mention the flame hurricane? They made a flame hurricane.

πŸ€–πŸ‘‰ How to Get Away With Stealing Military-Grade Technology: An Interview With Survival Research Labs' Mark Pauline

Wiki

SRL website

 

Immersion (Piss Christ) Wiki A 1987 photograph by the American artist and photographer Andres Serrano. It depicts a small plastic crucifix submerged in a small glass tank of the artist's urine. The piece was a winner of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art's "Awards in the Visual Arts" competition,[1] which was sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a United States Government agency that offers support and funding for artistic projects.

There always some issues. It was unusable a couple days ago for me. Whilst I can tolerate it for now, that’s a huge barrier for people especially newcomers.