Monday, January 18, 2010

Re: Karen Finley

A Boing Boing guy posts about Karen Finley (with filthy audio) and generates this fine comment:
tsm_sf | #8 | 15:33 on Mon, Jan.18

There's something very nostalgic about Finley's art, for me at least.

Something so very "pre-internet" about trying to shock people out of their complacency... one picture of a gaping anus instantly disarmed a million hours of performance art.

7 comments:

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

On June 15, 1998, the US Supreme Court declared that the National Endowment for the Arts had the right to take "into consideration general standards of decency and respect for the diverse beliefs and values of the American public" when determining whether artists are worthy of NEA funding.

Eff them scumbags.
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M. Bouffant said...

The Internet: It's ruined everything!

Smut Clyde said...

one picture of a gaping anus instantly disarmed a million hours of performance art.

I assume you are describing a Breitbart opinion piece.

mikey said...

Goatse.

Destroying the future of artists globally since 1997...

Pinko Punko said...

I still have never seen goatse, or even ceiling catse, but I do remember the first time I played the B-side to Sinead O'Connor's "Jump in the River" 12 inch single. Karen!

Substance McGravitas said...

Goatse is worth a look in a sort of evolutionary or anthropological sense: it's a mating dance gone wrong.

tigris said...

Goatse is internet history, one must behold it at least once. Ceiling cat is just cute as a fuzzy button.