Booby Art?
so one of my MSN messages to K had an emoticon of a lady flashing her boobs. so K, attempting to fake being a prude, called it porn. but i disgreed with him. i am convinced that it is ART!
why?
because it celebrates the female form. the act of proudly displaying the breasts is an expression of liberation from the restrictive false moralities set by male chauvinists. the act of flashing of the boobs is a step towards touching our atavastic roots, connecting us with a purity of a primordial past. it is a return to the maternal embrace of Nature.
so, since the act of flashing of boobs embodies all these profound themes in one beautiful simple action, it must be ART! calling it porn is denigrating the female form, it is being sexist and whoever does so shall BURN IN HELL!
i have just taken my first steps towards winning that Turner Prize (aka Prize for who can bullshit best to justify why SHIT is art.)
posted by rench00 at 9:54 PM
4 Comments:
I shall send you those booby ones I have..they are so not ARTSY!!
6:42 PM
my point is that in this day and age... it seems that anything can be art so long as someone is able to 'justify' it.
e.g. have you seen this piece that is just a blu tack that is pressed onto a wall? or the Tracey Amins' "Unmade Bed" (which is essentially that... she woke up after a rather raunchy night of wild sex and called her messy bed, with soiled sheets and underwear, a work of art).
so if all those can be art... why not a lady flashing her boobs?
6:49 PM
Hey RC, my first message here!
Frankly, I've quite had it with these artsy people. I think that is why I love science - it's bound by rules, the laws of nature, the tried and tested notions of the scientific method. But contemporary and advant garde art is just too radical - things considered 'tasteless' can now be consigned as 'art,' which seeks to justify it and makes it acceptible.
My mother is on the board of the Chinese Opera Institute and she constantly whines about the difficulty of getting the National Arts Council to fund her performances. But then a radical West End dance/play involving nudity comes along and voila! They get showcased at the Esplanade with a big bang - pun intended. We're talking about a time-honored tradition, an art form steeped in the roots of our culture, and yet it is usually snubbed in favor of controversial acts that so-call push the boundaries of imagination and creativity?
Try justifying this performance that was actually sponsored by the NAC. It was a dance piece, where performances did some raunchy lyrical dance, and as the show proceeded, they took off their clothes, put them in the middle of the stage, and it finally culminated in one of the dancers peeing on the pile of clothes, in front of everybody. Why should lewd acts such as this get labelled as art?
I know it sounds conservative, but I still think there should be limits and boundaries. Art shouldn't be an excuse - neither should secularism nor relativistic pluralism - to masquerade tasteless, horrid acts as socially acceptable ones.
Artisans talk about the freedom of expression. But in politics we all know that freedom is not free, why should art be the only realm allowed to indulge in this hedonistic notion?
Haha by the way, this feels like a newspaper forum. =)
Mel
5:36 AM
Mel:
i share your frustration (though perhaps not to the same extent) with the difficulty traditional art forms have with getting resources due to those silly avant garde, post-modern pieces.
i am particularly angry that we are losing our roots because it has become commercially non-viable precisely because the NAC refuses to support our local, smaller, less well-known but more experimental performance arts groups just to fund big names doing weird stupid things.
and i feel particularly frustrated that Singaporeans will more likely watch Ballet Under the Stars than Chinese Dance Under the Stars (if there ever is one). it's like... we would rather watch things 'Ang Moh', anything Western is cool but Chinese (or Asian for that matter) is not. it sucks.
so. i've been trying to learn more about my own culture as well as other Asian cultures. not very successful though... :(
9:04 AM
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