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Stupidest Artist Ever?

 
 
Ethan Hawke
18:15 / 26.11.01
quote:Viewer cashes in on artist's concept

By The Denver Post


Saturday, November 24, 2001 - ASPEN - The message on Rick Magnuson's work of art, "I Dare You to Steal This $100," resonated with at least one viewer.

Someone stole the $100 bill that was part of his conceptual artwork hanging in the Aspen Art Museum's Roaring Fork Open show. In its place, five 20-dollar bills were left. Magnuson, a community safety officer with the Aspen Police
Department, made the piece from acrylic paint and real money. It was titled "I Dare You to Steal This $100." It had been up for about a month when Magnuson found out Wednesday that someone decided to cash in on the artist's concept.

"I wanted someone to try and steal it and catch them and this makes it vague now," he said. "It ruined the whole aestheticsfor me; I don't think it's a valuable piece of art anymore because it's been defaced."
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
19:42 / 26.11.01
I love the way these "conceptual" artists get so precious when anyone messes with the physical manifestation of their "concept". It's like Tracy Emin's tantrum when she found out that her bed had been set up by gallery employees instead of the gallery letting her do it.
 
 
Ronald Thomas Clontle
00:30 / 27.11.01
Aw man, I thought this was where we got to nominate folks for the title...

I was gonna trot out a long list of folks that I've gone to school with!
 
 
Sauron
11:23 / 27.11.01
Storyline in Ghost World deals with this fantastically.

What a cunt this guy is; I would have thought he'd be happy that his art had been evolved, interacted with, mutalated and raped.

He asked a question and it got answered.

What's more annoying is that the fucker who nicked it had the decency to put the money back, although perhaps it was the different denomination that tipped him over the edge. Fucker.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
11:46 / 27.11.01
quote:Originally posted by Flux = R to the Izz-ad:
Aw man, I thought this was where we got to nominate folks for the title...

I was gonna trot out a long list of folks that I've gone to school with!


I'm always up for reading funny stories about pretentious art students, since I'm so superior to them in every way. Go for it, Flux.
 
 
Sauron
12:25 / 27.11.01
Stupidest Artists Ever:

All the cunts who work in advertising who think they're so fucking worthy.

You're only selling shit bitches.
 
 
DaveBCooper
19:45 / 27.11.01
Kind of like Jerry Rubin (think I've got that right) getting miffed when people tried to Steal His Book.

Or Stiller and Garafalo feeling irked when people Feel Their Book.

If you invite it, they will come...

DBC
 
 
The Sinister Haiku Bureau
09:34 / 28.11.01
Plan for future art exhibits:
In the centre of a symbolically empty white room, a bucket is placed. It is cheap, and plastic, and *YELLOW* and possibly cost £1.99 from Homebase, or some such store . The Title of the piece, displayed prominently on a small white card is "I dare you to Give me lots of Money".

At the end of every Day of the exhibition, any money in the bucket is collected, and spent on drugs.
At the end of the exhibition, I send press releases to all major newspapers, TV companies, and art magazines complaining about literalist philistines who violated my work by actually *Giving Me Lots Of Money* when the piece was *actually* supposed to be a demonstration of what a tight-fisted bunch of bastards the local art-loving community are.
Then, having recieved lots of publicity, I sell the bucket, the newspaper clippings, and the press releases to an art-buyer, making myself still more money.
This, I shall spend on drugs.
What d'ya think?

My next artwork will be called, "Cutting out the middleman: I dare you to give me Drugs". which will consist of me sitting in said symbolic white room, with 20 packs of skins, fags, and an empty pint glass, asking people to give me drugs, which I will then take, as a demonstration of the state of hedonism in the early 21st century.
When the exhibition is completed, I will then sell my now-drug-impregnated hair and bodily fluids, along with any tape recordings of any drug addled banter I may produce, paranoid scribblings, and videotape of me being drug-addled, to any art collector, who, upset at missing his opportunity to buy my bucket, will pay even more for a sample of my piss.
I will then use this money to buy some drugs.
 
 
lentil
12:07 / 20.12.01
excellent!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
14:41 / 20.12.01
You really should see if you can get Saatchi to pick up the tab for that one - then you can rail against rich fuckers and your benefactor in one go! Very enfant terrible...
 
 
@ Bod (The Second)
08:39 / 08.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Sauron:
Stupidest Artists Ever:

All the cunts who work in advertising who think they're so fucking worthy.

You're only selling shit bitches.


I agree.
and to quote myself:
Remember, you Advertising "Creatives" - your food commercials don't nourish and your soap powder ads won't wash.

also see. Bill Hicks, RIP for classic thoughts on people who work in advertising: KILL YOURSELF! I'M NOT JOKING - JUST KILL YOURSELF.
 
 
lentil
13:55 / 09.01.02
funny thing is, an ex girlfriend of mine now works for an advertising company, and whenever I make comments similar to the ones above, which are motivated simply by a hate of the industry, she takes it really personally and gets upset! You make your bed and then you have to eat it....
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:58 / 09.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Conspicuous Lentil:
funny thing is, an ex girlfriend of mine now works for an advertising company, and whenever I make comments similar to the ones above, which are motivated simply by a hate of the industry, she takes it really personally and gets upset!


She gets upset because you suggest she ought to kill herself? How unreasonable!
 
 
Ganesh
14:01 / 09.01.02
quote:Originally posted by Sauron:
You're only selling shit bitches.


Indeed. I demand a fully-functioning non-shit bitch!
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
14:40 / 09.01.02
See, if they were true advertising people, they'd be able to give you a shit bitch and convince you that you were better off with it.

Amateurs.
 
  
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