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Contemporary artists!
Emaline:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 17 Apr 2008, 22:34 ---Incidentally, while I thought this idea was very disturbing, I thought it plausible because I have known art students who've done crazy dangerous things with their own body. For example, another student in my department when I was in grad school did a performance where he injected a tube into his arm and then painted with the blood squirting out. jeezus
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That makes me think of this
From the artist's site:
"Blood Scarf depicts a scarf knit out of clear vinyl tubing. An intravenous device emerging out of the user's hand fills the scarf with blood. The implied narrative is a paradoxical one in which the device keeps the user warm with their blood while at the same time draining their blood drip by drip."
Which, btw, is Laura Splan, a contemporary artist who is quite interesting. http://www.laurasplan.com/
laizeohbeets:
My favorite contemporary artist is Annie Leibovitz. I am a tooootal photography nerd. I know she's a fashion photographer, but damn, if I don't think she's great.
The stuff by Do-Ho Suh is amazing, though. Anything that can use toy soldiers that creatively gets my vote.
Lines:
--- Quote from: öde on 17 Apr 2008, 14:38 ---And obviously we can't decide for ourselves whether to take risks or not.
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That's not really what I meant. When I was typing that, I was thinking, "What if she died while doing this?" If she had, it could have been one of several things, but the two that would have been most likely IMO are either 1) no one would have heard about it outside of the area or 2) the media would have even MORE to say about what she was doing. I think it could also rendered the piece meaningless, which is something that she didn't seem to think or care about. I guess if she or anyone doesn't care about health the way I do, this changes things, but personally I regard health highly. I also want people to understand what I'm getting at with my own art and I can't do that if I haven't explained it properly or if I died before I could get it to a point where my art could explain itself.
But we've moved on, so I'm not going to complain about it anymore.
RedLion:
--- Quote from: Emaline on 17 Apr 2008, 23:23 ---From the artist's site:
"Blood Scarf depicts a scarf knit out of clear vinyl tubing. An intravenous device emerging out of the user's hand fills the scarf with blood. The implied narrative is a paradoxical one in which the device keeps the user warm with their blood while at the same time draining their blood drip by drip."
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That's really cool, actually. Brilliant concept.
muteKi:
Alex Feodorov has pretty impressive stuff.
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