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Woman to inseminate herself as 'performance art', Australian taxpayer foots the bill.

 
 
 
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https://www.smh.com.au/culture/thea...or-a-lockdown-livestream-20200812-p55l21.html

Sometime soon, probably next week, Melbourne artist Casey Jenkins will ovulate. Jenkins will send out a notification on social media, a vial of sperm will arrive on their doorstep and, within hours, an audience will watch online as they self-inseminate. In the name of art.

Jenkins' project Immaculate is supported by South Australia's Vitalstatistix and the Australia Council, and intended as a precursor for a work commissioned by Arts Centre Melbourne and the Fringe.

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"I hope there will be conversations around this. If they feel uncomfortable, they will then say 'why?' What exactly, when there's not much there, will they hang that discomfort on?"
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This, um, 'art', is 100% funded by Australian taxpayers (Vitalstatistix is private but its funding comes from the South Australia government). The Australia Council (for the Arts) is a federal government agency.

A little information about Vitalstatistix:

We were founded in 1984 by Margie Fischer, Ollie Black and Roxxy Bent – a radical and ambitious act by three women determined to make a difference to the opportunities for and workplace experiences of women artists in Australia.
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So radical. Stunning and brave.

The 'artist' is the same woman who, in 2013 for 28 days, knitted with skeins of period-blood stained wool that she had put into her vagina. I don't mean she had previously put them in her vagina and then was knitting 'normally'. The skein of wool was inside her vagina as she knitted from the skein.

A few months ago I pondered whether Australia should sell its Jackson Pollock. I'm now convinced Australia should hold on to it forever, lest there is any chance the proceeds of such a sale were to fund more "art" like Ms. Jenkins'.
 
Flashback: May 4, 1979, Chicago, IL... Artist Joy Poe staged a realistic rape (with herself as 'victim') during a show opening at Artemisia Gallery.

I can't find an article directly concerning it, but there are quite a few references to it if one googles 'Joy Poe Artist rape'.

Yeah, kinda created an uproar at the time and for years afterwards.
 
Would the mods please retitle the OP to "Another week in the strange rebirth of Australia"?
 
I'm not sure what this is doing in 'politics'.

But my comment is.......

Fascinating. Modern Art has been pushing the boundaries and causing shocks for at least a hundred years.
 
Metaphor said:
A few months ago I pondered whether Australia should sell its Jackson Pollock. I'm now convinced Australia should hold on to it forever, lest there is any chance the proceeds of such a sale were to fund more "art" like Ms. Jenkins'.
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So you think Jackson Pollock's 'Blue Poles' is 'art'? :)
 
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The award-winning 'Piss Christ' (Andres Serrano, 1987).

A photo of a small plastic crucifix submerged in the artist's urine.
 
ruby sparks said:
I'm not sure what this is doing in 'politics'.

But my comment is.......

Fascinating. Modern Art has been pushing the boundaries and causing shocks for at least a hundred years.
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Because he thinks it should be a political issue, obviously. No government should fund any art unless Metaphor personally finds that art meaningful.
 
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From 'Oxidation Series' (Andy Warhol, 1977)

Artist invited friends to urinate onto a canvas of metallic copper pigments, so that the uric acid would oxidize into abstract patterns.
 
So, Metaphor is forced to confront his feelings about women, reproduction, taxes, public art programs, and a girl's icky secret private no-no place, all at once. Sounds like the artist is a success.
If only the post office was as effective in reaching THEIR goals.

Unlike, say, Trump's official presidential portrait? A Government Publishing Office photo, close-up, with his teeth, hair, spray tan on display. Nothing shocking there. Old fat white guy in a suit. Whatever your feelings on Trump are, this portrayal neither adds to nor subtracts from them. And the taxpayers support it, too. About as confrontational as the weather map.
 
Keith&Co. said:
So, Metaphor is forced to confront his feelings about women, reproduction, taxes, public art programs, and a girl's icky secret private no-no place, all at once. Sounds like the artist is a success.
If only the post office was as effective in reaching THEIR goals.
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Yeah, but since the artist is a woman, her goals are icky.
 
I have just gotta move to Australia and declare myself to be an artist. All this time I had thought art required exceptional talent but it looks like I could make a nice living in Australia just by creating something that makes many people go, UGH. I can easily produce shit, flim, piss, blood, semen, etc. to smear on things that should get that reaction.
 
ruby sparks said:
I'm not sure what this is doing in 'politics'.

But my comment is.......

Fascinating. Modern Art has been pushing the boundaries and causing shocks for at least a hundred years.
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So what? That doesn't mean it's worth government subsidy.
 
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