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performance art
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Rachel Maddow: Is Herman Cain Punking Us?
Politics Buzz In this riveting segment on last night's Rachel Maddow Show, the titular host points out that Cain's bid for the presidency may be about as sincere as Andy Kaufman's pursuit of the Inter-Gender Wrestling Champion title. (via mediaite.com)
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Video: Michael Jackson Tribute By Cirque Du Soleil
On a cold October evening in Montréal, Cirque du Soleil employees and artists from the various shows performing around the world, came together for a surprise street performance to “They Don’t Care About Us” led by choreographer Travis Payne.
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Artist Injected Herself With Horse Blood To Feel More Like A Horse
Culture Buzz Two French performance artists, Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin, put together a piece called “Que le cheval vive en moi” (May the horse live in me). The two have “been exploring trans-species relationships and the questioning of scientific methods and tools for 20 years now.” Because why not? Awesome. Photos, video, and more info inside.
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Video: Bizarre Performance Art With Bread
Tatsumi Orimoto’s “Punishment” uses “bread as a universal symbol for communication.” Eh, just skip to the 1:49 mark already.
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Video: The Cat Man
Bela travels hours by train throughout the south of France to perform with his affectionate house cats.
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Punch Me Panda
Culture Buzz Need to blow off some steam? Feel like punching something adorable? Nate Hill is here to help. Dressed as a happy panda, Nate offers random strangers to punch his (padded) stomach. This performance art piece is a knock out! (All images credit: Rob Bennett.)
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Video: Need Some Fresh Nightmares?
Watch this ghoulish piece of performance art. It really gets going pretty good after a little while. [“Pretty good” in the sense of “Holy shit, what the fuck did I just watch?”]
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Video: Every Underdog Has Her Day
The trailer for a documentary about Suzanne Muldowney (a.k.a. “Underdog”), a performance artist best known for her dance interpretation of the cartoon character Underdog. This is heady stuff.
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Video: Man Loves His Chicken On The Subway
The New York City subway system provides constant inspiration for performance artists everywhere.
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James Franco, Performance Artist
Celebrity Buzz If you were wondering why James Franco took that General Hospital gig, it was intended as a piece of performance art. The artist named simply “Franco” states: “I disrupted the audience's suspension of disbelief, because no matter how far I got into the character, I was going to be perceived as something that doesn't belong to the incredibly stylized world of soap operas.”
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Video: TXTual Healing
Paul Notzold's TXTual Healing project relies on text messages projected onto walls to create user-generated art in a variety of different contexts. This video is from an event last Saturday at the Chelsea Museum of Art in New York, which combined the user-generated text projections with performances by four actors. The awesome Yeah Yeah Yeahs soundtrack makes it worth watching even if you hate art.
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Video: The Mystery Of Clay Woman
Amy Poehler, Alan Cumming, Debbie Harry and darlings of New York's performance art scene star in this mockumentary, which will accompany Michael Cavadias's “lecture” about a 500-million-year-old enigma who, according to legend, can cure anyone of their deepest pain. Even if the idea of seeing “performance art” is enough to give you douche chills, the combination of Amy Poehler and urban legend should be the ticket to a good time.
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