roman-numerals asked: someone with the url "fatpeopleontreadmills" reblogged the hair-cheese post with our commentary and added "It’s a fucking piece of cheese with hair on it". just thought i'd share, since i can't bring myself to even look at their blog and possibly reply. thanks for the insight on art—i needed that perspective.
Honestly when I started that argument I was pretty ambivalent about the piece. Mostly I was just bugged at the idea that because you don’t like a piece or find it weird it has no place in a museum of contemporary art. After I was forced to really defend “why is this art?” I found the humanity in it. We took that journey together and no joke I love that piece now and will go down to LAMOCA to see it.
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May 27 2013
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becks28nz:
Behind the Candelabra - stand out performance from all cast, but special kudos to Rob Lowe!
80s plastic surgery Rob Lowe was the best.
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May 27 2013
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roman-numerals:
joetheblogger:
robcoindustries:
this is art. this is a work. of contemporary art. being exhibited at the los angeles museum of contemporary art. the title is “long haired cheese”. this is art. i couldn’t make this shit up if i tried.
If the purpose of art is to elicit emotion then I would call that successful, no matter how absurd.
I agree that art’s purpose is to elicit emotion, but then I wonder where we draw the line—if the endless junk all over my room that I have yet to clean up counts because it elicits anxiety when I see it? Does whatever it is need to be clearly on display somehow (in a museum, on a wall visible to many, etc) in order for it to qualify as art? I don’t know, I’m being pretentious, but I don’t know how else to respond to nasty-looking hair on nasty-looking cheese.
The question you’re proposing is at the very heart of all modern and abstract art. To me it doesn’t have to be in a gallery to be art, there’s art, beauty and emotion in pretty much everything around you if you’re willing to see it. I mean you could be glib and hold up your shoe and say “this is art” but then yeah you’d be missing the point.
This cheese with hair is gross, of course it is, but it’s gross in a really strange and specific way isn’t it? People get grossed out when there’s hair in their food, even though it’s unlikely that a small hair is going to horribly taint their food it’s still gross. And now we have this, taken to the next level where it’s not just hair in the food it’s the food growing hair. Not to mention that cheese is pretty gross on its own to some people (how many foods can you think of that sweat?). I think we’re all sharing the same emotion about how a cheese growing hair makes us feel. That strange but specific ick connects us in a profound way. What more can you ask of art but to connect us to the same feeling, even if that feeling is revulsion?
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May 26 2013
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robcoindustries:
joetheblogger:
robcoindustries:
joetheblogger:
robcoindustries:
this is art. this is a work. of contemporary art. being exhibited at the los angeles museum of contemporary art. the title is “long haired cheese”. this is art. i couldn’t make this shit up if i tried.
If the purpose of art is to elicit emotion then I would call that successful, no matter how absurd.
The only emotion elicited here is extreme confusion and somehow I don’t think that’s the point of this work
Perhaps it is?
Well if it is then tons of kudos to the artist but all evidence points the other way
What evidence? You have no evidence. All you have is a block of cheese with hair that struck you as so odd that you felt the need to discuss it.
To me, that is extremely successful absurdism, if you can’t see the art in that then I’m sorry that all you’ll ever see is cheese with hair.
3:24 pm |
May 26 2013
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robcoindustries:
joetheblogger:
robcoindustries:
this is art. this is a work. of contemporary art. being exhibited at the los angeles museum of contemporary art. the title is “long haired cheese”. this is art. i couldn’t make this shit up if i tried.
If the purpose of art is to elicit emotion then I would call that successful, no matter how absurd.
The only emotion elicited here is extreme confusion and somehow I don’t think that’s the point of this work
Perhaps it is?
3:14 pm |
May 26 2013
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robcoindustries:
this is art. this is a work. of contemporary art. being exhibited at the los angeles museum of contemporary art. the title is “long haired cheese”. this is art. i couldn’t make this shit up if i tried.
If the purpose of art is to elicit emotion then I would call that successful, no matter how absurd.
(via the-abcs-of-life)
3:08 pm |
May 26 2013
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Anyone else seeing “Showstealer Trial Version” on Arrested Development?
mylifeistelevision:
joetheblogger:
Suuuper professional.
It seems we’re supposed to interpret it as a piracy “joke” since they’re using FOX archival footage. Uh, okay.
That’s a little obtuse… even for AD
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May 26 2013
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