Reacting to Weird Performance Art
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A few days ago I had some oui'd and watched a bunch of weird performance art videos and decided to avoid an age restriction by reacting to them in a normal reaction vid, ill just talk about them in a more traditional commentary style. Yall remember the gir that dances on butter with adele's music in the background? Yeah, it gets odder.
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I'm an art major and one of my finals for a class was to do a group project doing performance art and this brought back so many unwanted memories. Thank you Mac
Art school gives everyone some kind of PTSD even if it's just in student loans
@@TheMoonlightMage the amount if weed I smell everyday in my art highschool is enough to make me high with them idk I should probably rethink my life choices shouldn't I
@@aichaguebbas14 they’re just miranting their art brains in the creative juices.
Well Creative gasses ig
💀😂💅
I'm not even at are uni yet and I already am suffering from 4 in a row art classes almost every day ;-;-; even though I'm the only student in my year doing art, so it's very peaceful, I stiff hate everything ;-;
Marina and Melati's performance art was actually starred in a museum i visited a few weeks ago it was honestly pretty cool to see the meanings but if i saw it with no context i wouldve been running out lol
What was the meaning ?
Her art seems more like a fetish then art lol I feel like some weirdo is definitely getting off to the butter or the glass squishing her 😭
There's definitely people into that, although I'd argue that sexual arousal is a valid emotional response to art lol
@@DZrache very valid point
HELP BC WHAT WAS YOKO ONO DOING
Hi, I'm Melati's student!!! I am a performance art major and have been taught by Melati Suryodarmo. For those of you who are wondering why she was dancing on huge blocks of butter; the following is the answer-
"Exergie- Butter Dance " is a durational performance art where she dances sensually and slowly on blocks of butter to traditional Javanese music, dressed in a tight black dress and red high heel shoes. In the performance, she constantly loses her balance, with a look of terror on her face. She falls down harshly but gets back up to repeat the movements over and over again. Obviously; suffering through a lot of pain. This performance for her was a way of overcoming her existential fear of life and failure. This performance embodies her displacement and her exploration of the duality of her identity that comes with being a diasporic artist.
Thank you for reading this!! :))
Oh bdhdhs I love that a lot!
Super interesting! Thanks for sharing!!
Lol
This is such arrogant, pseudo-intellectual bullshit lmao
cool. appreciate the context.
Still not my thing tho 😅
The crazy thing about Marina Abramovic's piece with the bow and arrow is she's leaning back while her partner holds the string. Basically if she lets go she'll be fine but if her partner lets go the arrow will go through her chest. I think it's to show how we put so much faith in our partners and basically give them the power to destroy us. Tbh her stuff is some of the only performance art that resonates with me because it all has a much deeper meaning beyond "Look how weird this is"
YES!! We learned about her in my class last year and I thought, "this is an actually COOL performance artist". I think the problem is that the meaning gets lost a lot in this art form, so people end up doing it for the lolz instead of a reason if that makes sense.
Then explain the butter dance
@@oyinkansolaadebajo9716 Yeah I think a lot of people default to "performance art is nonsense, way too complicated for me" but a lot of her stuff is related to the first thing you think of, not some deeper convoluted message. It's really easy to understand, but people tend to think it's all pretentious so it can't be so simple. I hate "high art" usually but her stuff is great
@@NovaBlueNova yeah definetly, the first thing especially with the bow thingy is "that's fekin dangerous isn't it" and that's exactly the whole point
whoa. my 12 yo brain just got slightly smarter.
Marina's performance where she stared at people was actually really emotional. She even at one point in those performance sat down with her ex-husband, and just stared at each other silently for minutes, you can really feel the emotion in both of their eyes.
I also loved what her and her ex husband did for their divorce. They started off at both ends of the Wall of China, and walk towards meeting midway just to say their goodbyes.
Ngl just hearing this alone makes me confused they broke up because they’re just as dramatic as each other.
She even smiled and cried, both things she wasn't allowed in that performance. I really cried watching this
Came to comment this
@@DD-po2hh They broke up just like how most great relationships do, people just fall out of love and they decided that itd be better for them to explore art in their separate ways
i love that video so much it makes me sob but i love it so much
Watching Mac already feels like watching performance art so watching Mac watch performance art feels meta as hell
Agreed
😂😂😂😂 i know, I love it
Exactly
for real
Exactly this
i remember learning about Marina Abramovich in art school. A fascinating woman. Another interesting thing, the guy that was in a lot of her performances with her was her boyfriend/best friend. They had been together for years and were both performance artists, so they planned to do a performance where they both would start at opposite ends of the Great Wall of China and they would walk towards the center and get married wherever they meet up. BUT. It took so long for them to get the proper permissions and preparations to do this on the Great Wall of China that by the time they actually did the performance art and walked half the length of the Great Wall, instead of getting married at their meeting point, they broke up. After parting ways for a few years, he surprised her at the performance where she sat for 49 days by sitting across from her. She was very happy to see him, and it was one of the few times that she showed any emotion during that whole 49 day performance.
her book Walk Through Walls is a very interesting read for anyone wanting to learn more! she goes really in depth into her work and what was going on in her personal life. her relationship with Ulay, and what happened after it ended, is a good chunk of the book
Marina Abramović was also the one with a performance art piece where she just stood there and the audience could come up and do whatever they wanted to her with provided items (including a loaded gun) and a lot of the audience just got really, really horrific with it, to the point that part of the audience got into a fight to stop someone from shooting her. It was supposed to be a study in how far the audience was willing to go and uh.....conclusion is "way the fuck too far". It was called Rhythm 0 if anyone wants to read about it on Wikipedia etc but huge trigger warning for physical and sexual assault and just general awfulness.
OMG, she was assaulted??!! I had read about this piece before, but didn’t know that had happened. That really lowers my faith in humanity
i found this really interesting aswell - i also heard that after the performance ended and marina started moving and doing things by herself again, the same people who had control over her had been scared shitless by her and ran out of the building, as if they were horrified of what they did
"What I learned was that ... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you ... I felt really violated: they cut up my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the audience. Everyone ran away, to escape an actual confrontation."
I’d learned about this before and seeing an exhibit about it at the Tate Modern really put me in a place to sit with it. Absolutely fucking wild
WTF
Marina Abramovic is honestly an inspiring preformance artist. Her rythm series is so interesting to look into and if you wanna know the true horrors of humanity, i recommend learning about rythm 0
Came to the comments to mention this. I don't follow performance art at *all* but that one is simultaneously incredibly fascinating and well thought out and also pure nightmare fuel
Her art style seems like some old mans fetish lol
@@Solutad yes!! Totally agree
rhythm 0 was just so depressing tbh, I also wonder if it would’ve gone differently if she was a man.
@@babbique939 most likely not. women can be sexually evil too. whether it be assault or anything else. violence would probably be worse since it is a masculine figure and is commonly known to be stronger than a feminine body, though, again- i think it too depends if the same audience was there to “paint” on the canvas
Okay wait no seriously Mac, If you put a theme to that idea with the candles, it 1000% would be an art piece and frankly be better than a lot of the performance art I studied in uni. Seriously. Being dressed up, presenting yourself a certain way and trying to perform a simple task that is repetitive but suddenly infinite - oh my god if I was still in school I might steal that XD You were joking. But girl. Oh my god. That's such a good idea.
I was so confused when that idea was actually good! His own interpretation? Naaa wouldn't get that many points, but the performance? Hell yeah
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this lmao! The theme could be constantly trying to look your best under the pressures of life while representing the feeling of routine and as time goes on, becoming more frustrated that the pressures of life (the reigniting candles) keep relighting itself only adding more pressure until the end where maybe he sits down and then all the candles at once go out. This has got my brain clicking in all the right places lmao
I took a contemporary art history class in college and we spent an entire month on just performance art. When I tell you that was the weirdest month of my life! We had an entire week on just Maria Abromovitch and her now ex husband. Like this shit was intense!
That’s marina 🤷🏼♂️ meeting her partner to officially split up in the middle of the Great Wall of China from opposite ends as a performance piece?! Hardcore stuff
that relationship was THE DEFINITION OF EXTRA
@@mustardhoodie4191 LITERALLY!
@@hennerz93 white ppl doing white ppl stuff tbh. oh let's make a foreign landmark a decorum for our individualities. yeah, yawn
This feels like an oral essay for your mandatory art appreciation course that you were forced to take even tho your major is nursing
😂😂😂Omgggg
Watching mac is like sniffing candy,it’s weird, fun, and people look at you strange for it
That’s a perfect way of saying it!
lmao ur right
I remember learning about performance art in art class last year, and if that year wasn’t bad enough, seeing all of those videos of different performances traumatized me
Is this an exaggeration or was it truly traumatizing? /gen
@@ambarcastaneda4763 now, I have to add that I’m really sensitive so anything that’s too deep, especially some forms of art, can make me feel really uncomfortable. But that thing…
It scares me
I don't know if I'm prepared, but I know that Mac is probably gonna laugh his ass off and I love it.
Why does your music taste literally look like mine when I was a freshman, do you have daddy issues too
@@user-ex5bm3mr5h Kind of...? More like just parental issues in general
@@GaymerLikesAss i feel like they mightve been talking about the today was a good day person
Why do I see you everywhere 😅
@@poppy-spades lol idk.
Say what you will, it's not as weird as the people dancing with those weird metal poles, and posing strangely, while making equally strange noises in that one video Mac reacted to, a long time ago 😂
That one had me bricked up tbh
This guy was the first one I thought of, I found it via the Found Footage Festival.
They’re called strippers if thats what u meant and it isnt weird lol
@@Zombina638 nooo i'm pretty sure they mean the one with poles quite literally attached to their crotches
it’s the clip at 6:35 and in this video ua-cam.com/video/DOwNG6SiIaE/v-deo.html
“I aim to create a concentrated level of intensity without the use of narrative structure” - Mac describing his own editing style (that we love)
A friend of mine was a theater major in college, and one of her classmates had a focus in performance art. For her final project to graduate, performance art girl stood on a stage and ate a whole raw onion like it was an apple. Afterwards, she told my friend that she was pleased because she'd vomited uncontrollably when trying it during the rehearsal the day before.
Mac giving me full art education and criticism. Forget my art history degree this is all I need.
I'd pay for a live performance of Mac's performance dance
The one with the poles... The very first time I saw that, I hurt myself laughing so hard. The perfect absurdity of it all plus the absolute concentration of the audience almost killed me.
Ngl Mac’s idea of the candles and him in a gown in a room blowing them out and them reigniting is actually insanely good, like that’s really interesting performative art. Man just had a genius art idea and skimmed over it
this is so lovely hilarious and incredibly confusing at the same time
How do people go to art performances like this and not bust out laughing? This is coming from a theatre performance major btw lmao
Art student here, they usually take themselves way too seriously to see the ridiculousness of the show but some people do bust out laughing its all part of the ✨ experience ✨
@@mustardhoodie4191 it’s truly insane how it’s taken this seriously. Please don’t invite me to one of these if you have one, I’ll get kicked out EASILY 😂
@@kicollins2962 Marina did a whole exhibition with a lot of art students who had to be naked. To see that people had to squeeze through a doorway in which a naked man and a naked woman stood facing each other. You had to touch them, you had to walk sideways, you had to face one. Many people laughed there and were embarrassed. That's really a part of that.
Or the guy who went to a city in a desert and shoved an ice block through the whole city until it was completely melted away. The important part is that the artist doesn't laugh if it isn't a part. As a guest do what you feel. That in my opinion makes the art more honest because it IS also about the reaction. And if it's funny? Then it's funny!
@@luxaartozial660 thank you for explaining that😂 I’m sorry, he DRAGGED THE ICE?😂
@@kicollins2962 it was more of a shoving process. He didn't have something to pull. I can look if i find it!
Olivier de Sagazan's performances are about his inner demons and struggles with them; each new face he makes with the paint and clay (and sometimes straw and hair) is meant to represent one of those demons, thereby giving them form. And when he changes to a different face, the prior one ends up losing its power over him. Essentially he's just saying 'hey I'm depressed and fucked up and tired of it'.
ik this has little to nothing to do with the actual video, but mac wearing a jarvis johnson sweater during the sponser is really nice. it's cool to see black creators supporting other black creators.
Omg I know! I came to the comments specifically for the Jarvis merch
Mac somehow seemed like he was reading a script for the ad but at the same time didn't seem like he was and its just the chaotic energy i needed
Marina risked her life for so many of her art pieces.
And the other person in the one with the arrow and the hair was her long time boyfriend.
While sitting in that chair in MoMA she didn't just look at the people, she lifted her head for everybody, completely focusing on them, not allowed to do an expression, looking them straight in the eyes and many people started crying and said afterwards it felt like she looked into their souls and had truly seen and noticed them. They weren't anyone, they weren't forgotten, they were cared for. All that from a direkt look, as long as you liked.
At one point her ex boyfriend, from that other art pieces, sat in front of her and that was the only time she couldn't hold that straight expression, she had to smile and they both cried a little. It was so beautiful to see.
Also: art is never about "i could do that too", it's also about having the idea first ^-^
(But you should do that candle performance, there's a lot people can interpret in it, this should count!)
Are you sure they weren't crying from laughter? Because what you just described sounds hilarious.
@@quiznak1003 it was emotional and not funny at all. Yes. I can differentiate laughter from deep emotion, love, melancholy etc
There's absolutely nothing like getting forced to watch performance art in university lectures. One class I had was 3 hours of mouth noises everyone agreed had no patterns nor purpose nor intent. It was in that moment I truly appreciated the fact that tiktoks go viral, not this performance art shit.
But i hope you mean art or funny tiktoks because those "pretend you're a Holocaust prisoner", "lick a toilet seat", "eat a dish washer thingy and die" challenges are some of the worst things I've ever heard from. Especially the first one. If people are stupid and die, i don't care, but making antisemitism a trend and viral? Absolutely disgusting, i wished everyone of those people the worst. I'd rather have weird screaming trending than that shit
@@luxaartozial660 yes, pretty sure we can safely say they obviously dont mean the literal bad parts of TikToks are what we should _keep_
I would rather watch Performance Art than woke Tiktokers complaining anything in this world.
Loool old art school kid here, loved this. I'll say performance art is like anything in this world: there's a lot of great, powerful stuff and then there's a lot of garbage. Also Mac, ffs you should have ended with "No rest for the wick"! Can't believe you missed that perfect pun opportunity!
“we can’t own humans….anymore” why did that make me laugh
As iconic as the butter dance is, it stresses me out knowing that at any second she can obliterate both of her ankles in one go 😖
As for my performance art piece, instead of dancing on butter, I’d pay homage to the viral grape lady video by dancing barefoot in a kitty pool full of grapes just squashing them and by the end of the performance I’d take a cup, scoop up whatever liquid I made and drink it, and do that satisfactory ‘aahhh’. I guess the meaning behind it would show that hard work prevails at the end and can be satisfactory. Yeah.
you know, this is not too shabby an idea. go right ahead and do it son I believe in you
….I like it
I can’t help but feel like the whole butter dance thing is just catering to “wet and messy fetishism”.
Yes, why is nobody talking about this lmao
Sploshing
This is what I initially thought 💀
@@throughthedin is a real denomination?
Oh absolutely
Side note: Mac wearing Jarvis' merch makes me happy
Mac always makes me smile when im upset
MAC YOU GOT MY BRAIN SPINNING THEM GEARS. YOUR ART IDEA IS FANTASTIC!!! The theme could be constantly trying to look your best under the pressures of life while representing the feeling of routine and as time goes on, becoming more frustrated that the pressures of life (the reigniting candles) keep relighting itself only adding more pressure until the end where maybe he sits down and then all the candles at once go out. This has got my brain clicking in all the right places lmao
I think the "I'm a ghost in this house" piece is actually so cool because as she's crushing the coal she's turning black and disappearing into the black background of the room, it's kinda cool and spooky to watch
as soon as you said performance art I was hoping you saw the iconic "What's Behind our Face?" video. Genuinely disturbing but really resonated with me. We do so much to mold, shape, and change who we are through our lives that we often become unrecognizable, or in the worst case a monster. We have so much that blocks who we are at our core that it gets lost. At least thats what I got from it. Also heavy body dysmorphia vibes but that might be just me.
and honestly the butter one is the one piece of Melati's (that you showed anyway) that I kinda think I get. It's absolutely weird and ridiculous and tbh hilarious, but what I think it's going for is something about perseverance? Though that's probably too on the nose to be the entire meaning. It's probably got more to do with how she is self sabotaging herself by putting the butter there and/or is giving the viewer the rare chance to openly see someone genuinely fail (which is so incredibly rare nowadays with how we all present ourselves, especially with social media and the image of having a "perfect life") and push through hopelessness/defeat/anger/etc. to keep going.
I'd love to hear other people's views! It was fun to use my art degree a little and try to analyze a couple of these
Thank you Mac for reminding me of when I had to learn about performance and body art. 😭
Fun fact: This one artist I had to learn about named Orlan actually sued Lady Gaga and honestly, Orlan is just my sleep paralysis demon-
Mac staring into the camera with the Yoko noises in the background killed me 💀💀💀
Mac your performance idea can mean that no matter how hard we try as humans to right our wrongs of the past, the past will always be present and come back to haunt us. But we have the power and willingness to keep on trying and progressing, to make change no matter how little that change is. Because eventually the performance will end and we will have succeeded. Or some shit like that idk
MAC WITH THE JARVIS JOHNSON MERCH IN THE SPONSOR
my performance art: sleeping with no one while random music that doesnt match the mood of the room just blasts
Love how Mac tried to make a video ridiculing performance art but the comment section is filled with love for performance art anyway with little to no hate just a lot of very interesting facts, explanations and points of view.
YOU MADE A VIDEO ON HER OH MY GOD AFTER ALL THIS TIME!!! I saw this dance years ago and nobody i spoke to had heard of her 😱 this is surreal
I saw a piece about who I believe was Marina. During one of her sit down at a table pieces her first love surprised her by sitting down across from her. She tried to hold it together but you could see how emotional they both were. Made me really wanna know the whole story.
Mac, my brother in christ, im really fighting my art student urges to defend the art industry here ajsndnsncnJjd
One time one of my professors took like half of the class time to explain how badly treated Yoko Ono really was lol she's an icon in the scene apparently
I love how you acted like you're unfamiliar with the performance art world.
Bestie; every intro you've ever made **IS** performance art. High quality PA at that. 👀🙄💗✌🏾😂
At least we know Macs future career
Yes
louder for the people in the back:
“i aim to create a concentrated level on intensity without the use of narrative structure”
I love that you are wearing jarvis's 'trying my best' merch, creators supporting each other :D
The bond we had as art students was that none of us liked performance artists
oh that reminds me
in middle school we learned about perfomance art on our art class and the teacher wanted to make a performance art whit us for the whole school
we had to walk barefoot to the right side to the left side of our gym while a city background sound was playing, and mimicking that we were doing something, like talking to the phone (without actually talking), putting makeup on (while walking in the middle of the city??), checking your wristwatch, carrying a bag etc etc
and when the sound stopped another one would start, idk what it was but we had to line up in front of everyone and them put black paint on our faces
and that was it
I don't know what that meant and no one understood what we did but yeah I had to do that and it wasn't a cool experience
Mac, is his own type of art. Can we agree on this please? His humor is the best part!
As an art history student: performance art is usually just people acting out their fantasies and then thinking of an explanation later.
Also the Sagazan one is in a movie called Samsara and it's done with extremely creepy gamelan music and if you really want to be scared watch that version.
ua-cam.com/video/-MLIcnua1is/v-deo.html
I work at a contemporary art museum and I can tell you this explanation of performance art is pretty accurate. I was told by one of the student ambassadors that I manage that there was a performance art where someone either defecated or urinated (can't remember which, might have been both) as part of the act. Thankfully it wasn't our museum, but I've seen some pretty bizarre stuff in my short time being there. Won't go into details as I don't want to defame or make anyone feel bad for what they deem art, some things you just can't help to go "Wow!" though.
I want to see Mac doing the candle performance art so bad o my gosh
Holy shit I completely blocked out the memory that I saw Marina doing her chair performance on a trip to the MoMA until seeing it again in Mac’s video
14 year old me didn’t understand any of what was going on. I remember asking my mom if she was allowed to take bathroom breaks.
macs idea for a performance art piece was honestly so good lol , u should totally do it !!
Mac reacting to weird performance art while we acknowledge how his ✨editing skills✨ are an artform within itself.
His candle performance art reminds me of the futility of life and how ultimately we accomplish nothing, it is simply a never ending cycle of work, eating, sleeping, just to do it over and over again till you die where your life amounts to nothing in the end as you will be forgotten within two centuries. And life keeps going for all its other victims to keep trying to blow out that candle.
How the hell can people sit there and watch this lady try to dance on butter and not laugh 😂
Mac, your dance obviously means that even if you put effort into something, walking away from the task before it's truly done will only cause it to be a reoccurring problem for you to deal with, regardless of beauty. Thank you, thank you, I will take my psychology scholarship now.
petition for Mac to make his own performance art
HER MOAN WHEN SHE FINISHES HER PERFORMANCE HAS KILLED ME
She inspired BTS to create their hit song 'Butter' and was their choreographer for it.
You should absolutely do the performance art peice you described with the candles and the ballgown it'd be amazing
My class watched “Joan Jonas volcanic saga” in art school during finials week. I was so sleep deprived at the time that I was completely caught off guard by the absurdity of this performance art that I had to remove myself from the classroom.
I remember having to do performance art in high school… so my group decided to have a dragon, a robot, a scientist, and their assistant(costumes entirely made from cardboard/brass fasseners/yarn) yell at each other in nonsensical german phrases as we danced… art is weird.
The huge moment in that performance piece by Marina Abramovic was that her performance partner that she parted ways with a good amount of time ago, showed up and it was a big deal.
I would love to see what you think about the sculpture Can’t Help Myself by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, it keeps sweeping up its own blood and just everything keeps going back, and it just keep struggling until the machine itself died a couple years ago.
Ok ngl that performance piece Mac described that he would do would actually be really successful I think like I've been around the fine arts scene and that sounds like right up the alley
"we can't own humans anymore. at least that's what we tell ourselves." let me tell you what i CACKLED.
“We can’t own humans. Anymore.” Sure Jan.
My weird performance art would be me with wet hair sitting in a dim wet room with nice water noises and me covering my ears as if it’s to loud in a all white dress then half way through the video the noises stop and I get up and walk around the room but stop every so often to splash myself with water from a water then get splashed with more water by people off camera then continue until I just sit back down and make weeping noises.
There’s a reason behind it to
mac coming through with the jarvis merch is everything i needed today
Honestly, what I've learned about art during elective high school Art and living with visual and creative artists in university... the art world is hella toxic and about who you know I guess.
I know art is meant to be more about the emotions it creates rather than the actual skill and effort that goes into a piece, but FFS there is some shit. I remember being mad at some of the stuff that was deemed "good enough" to go into the New South Wales Art Gallery (yes I'm Australian). A metal spike with old thongs (flip flops) stabbed onto it. A canvas that was basically white. An Archibald finalist (big portrait competition with large cash prize) of a sad man pissing. Like WTF is art and how does one make a living from it if you aren't just working in corporate or well known enough to take commissions?
Our art class was also a little toxic. Like for assessments, the teacher would choose the "best" work to receive an A/100% and the rest would get graded based on how bad it was compared to that. Even now as a teacher I'd have no idea how to grade art, but I'm still salty about that grading system and how low my marks were.
I also remember this specific still life task. Fill up an A4 page, lead pencil, 5 different objects arranged in it that are related to each other. I hated it and didn't want to do typical still life objects like wine glasses and fruit. Eventually I got mad and the rest of the family left the house while I sat on the bathroom floor sketching toilet paper rolls, toilet paper holder, toilet spray, and a toilet bowl cleaner. I wasn't super good at art, but fuck did I enjoy choosing something unexpected like that.
The two performance arts I can think of and surprised you didn't mention: the lady who knitted yarn from her crotch (including when it was red during her period), and the other lady who sat while observers could do ANYthing (possibly the same artist who did the staring thing you mentioned).
Im waiting for Mac to release his performance art tbh
Mac’s videos just always make my day 😄
9:26 AYO that one skz venom scene was a reference to her thats so cool
My performance art would be me sleeping in a hammock far above the ground over a pool. I would be there for hours.
This one is amazing and damn you did your homework. Wasn't ever expecting you mention Joseph Beuys or Oliver de Sagazan! You did a great great job! So good I hope you will make a second part of this theme!
Maybe including a crazy performer like Valie Export, Paul Mc Carthy (not the Beatles guy), Mathew barney or Tehching Hsieh.
Ps. Marina everywhere xD
Mac's idea with the candles actually sounds cool.
When I was in undergrad and finishing up my philosophy minor in my final semester, I took two classes on aesthetic theory at the same time (taught by the same professor). During one of the classes we watched this really weird performance art video, and afterwards our professor asked what we thought of it in a round table sort of discussion (it was a super small honours class. I looked him dead in the eyes and said "I think it's all just some academic circle jerk." to which he calmly replied "Well, I haven't heard that one before." We watched the sitting in the chair for days Marina Abramovic performance in the other class. I don't know man, it's just not my thing. Also, after taking two classes on aesthetic theory, I still have absolutely zero clue what aesthetics is all about. I do remember, though, citing our Lord and Saviour penguinz0 in my theory that surrealism is an extreme form of hyper-realism. We also got a noise complaint called on us in the smaller class because we were playing weird metal music as part of the class way too loud.
Indonesian names like Melati's are mostly derived from Sanskrit words presumably cuz of Hindu monarchs who travelled there from India. Like her surname Suryodarmo, the moment you said it, it rang a bell. Suryo is Surya (Sun or Sun god) in Sanskrit. Darmo is dharma or dharm, meaning faith, spirituality and/or religion. Melati could be a derivation from the flower Maalati, a white oleander-species climber vine
The candle thing means no matter how hard you try to master a skill you will always need to relearn it ( reflecting on people with amnesia)
This is so entertaining man I'm laughing not because of the art of they are but because of how silent it is.
When I was a kid my family took us to a lot of museums and there was a day we went to MoMA and Tilda Swinton was sleeping in a glass box
I love art majors in the comment section recalling the weird shit we’ve done and seen. I played the piano one time until my hands couldn’t play anymore and got an A.
HE HAS A JARVIS JOHNSON SWEATER IN THE AD I SEE YOU MAC
Thank you for reminding me of a world I’ve been meaning to get back into! I LOVE performance art, was a big part of my uni degree
I need Mac's seductive candle walk to be real
I remember when you first reacted to the "body remix" clip. I'm so glad it became a thing for this channel lmfao
I had to learn about Marina Idontrememberherlastname and specifically Rhythm 0 for a philosophy class and boy I have not gotten over it since.
Butter dancing? That's just another Tuesday.
Omg I’m here! And you’re here! We’re all here! I love you all!
mine would probably be crying in front of an audience uncontrollably so I confirm that people are uncomfortable if you show emotions without their permission...so you basically feel what you’re allowed to feel in this world
If I were todo a art performance I'd have the people sit in a circle around me as I struggle to escape a giant clear ball, and every time I fail blood splatters on me
The awkward silence between his sentences/words will always get me 😂
Watching these people makes me so proud to be a theatre acting student