"Nibby" (nibby68)
03/19/2015 at 11:59 • Filed to: None
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"Nibby" (nibby68)
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So this famous installation artist, Ai Weiwei... put a photo of himself destroying a Han dynasty urn in an art museum. In front of those photos were a bunch of urns painted by Weiwei on display. An artist visiting the museum picked up and dropped one of the urns, in a playful response to Weiwei's work. Read more about it here !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
And then a digital artist, Grayson Earle, created a web game where you can break digital representations of Ai Weiwei's vases, complete with a damaged property estimate. Hilarious.
http://www.complex.com/style/2014/03/…
Wacko
> Nibby
03/19/2015 at 13:02 |
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please read the links nibby posted, oh the Irony
BJ
> Nibby
03/19/2015 at 13:18 |
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Incredible. As performance art, and perhaps as a form of protest, Caminero hit the nail on the head. Except for the fact that what he did was also vandalism. From the article:
... it seems pretty clear that the issue here is ownership: "Ai Wei Wei, I believe, has owned in one way or other the things that he has destroyed [in his art]. [Caminero] was destroying someone else's property. That strikes me as a form of vandalism and not a form of art"
The game is awesome in it's simplicity. And the name is great, too: Ai WeiWhoops! If I wasn't at work...
Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> BJ
03/20/2015 at 18:48 |
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That's an interesting point, but there comes a time, I believe, that great human achievement is inherited by humanity and cannot be owned beyond custodial care. Consider the ancient treasures being demolished by ISIS in Iraq currently. That loss cannot be measured in lucre.
Ai Wei Wei's act implies that his work is comparable to, or that he is in a position himself to destroy, a relic from antiquity. Caminero is brilliant because he illuminates the that Wei Wei's work is in no way comparable. Or at the very least, Wei Wei's work is a few thousand years from being comparable. Brave genius on the part of Caminero.