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.
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7 comments:

  1. ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©January 18, 2010 at 6:40 PM

    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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  2. M. BouffantJanuary 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM

    The Internet: It's ruined everything!

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  3. Smut ClydeJanuary 19, 2010 at 12:27 AM

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

    I assume you are describing a Breitbart opinion piece.

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  4. mikeyJanuary 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM

    Goatse.

    Destroying the future of artists globally since 1997...

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  5. Pinko PunkoJanuary 21, 2010 at 8:08 PM

    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!

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  6. Substance McGravitasJanuary 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM

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

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  7. tigrisJanuary 22, 2010 at 2:44 PM

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

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