How can anyone take art seriously when artists feel compelled to do this shit?
Thankfully, this is very tame compared to what Yale “art student,” Aliza Shvarts, considered “art.”
Speaking of talent-challenged Ms. Shvarts, while the controversy she caused focused entirely on her, there was one person we all forgot: her advisor, the “performance artist” Ms. Pia Lindman.
Apparently Lindman didn’t do much advising when it came to Shvarts. Upon reviewing some of Lindman’s “art,” however, one shudders to imagine what advice Lindman might have imparted on the 22 year old Shvarts.
Of course, Lindman is much older than 22, so she should know better than post the following revolting comment online:
Working with video, I perceive the act of recording as a performative gesture and part of the content of the work. In residency at the World Financial Center, I submerged a camera in the harbor nearby, in an attempt to create a point of access to an otherwise impenetrable corporate environment further rendered paranoid by the traumas of the World Trade Center disaster.
Confused? You should be. Academics long ago turned writing into an impenetrable fog. Bear with me while I untangle Lindman’s mess:
When I video record something, I make it part of my art. If you thought the corporate types around the WTC were bad before, you shoulda seen what wackjobs they were AFTER 9/11! They wouldn’t let me video record when and where I wanted, so I dunked a camera into the water near the WTC to show what it would look like underwater.
Imperfect, yes, but at least my translation is comprehensible.
So the World Trade Center was an “impenetrable corporate environment” which was “rendered paranoid” by 9/11. I can’t imagine why any corporate environment should be “penetrated.” Nor can I understand why anyone in lower Manhattan would be “paranoid” after their neighborhood was turned into Dante’s Inferno.
Sticking a camera into a harbor was supposed to achieve exactly what? Insofar as it takes zero talent and less imagination to dunk a video camera into water (No, I don’t care how she did it) I cannot fathom how such a project would be deemed “art.”
With this academic “advising” Shvarts, any wonder that Shvarts found phony abortions to be great for an art project?
Yale University, ladies and gentlemen!
Filed under: Art, Crazy liberals , 9/11, Aliza Shvarts, Art, Crazy liberals, lice, Pia Lindman, World Trade Center
