Wat?

Awesome. I love it. Going to check out that thing with Napalm Death.
EDIT: Crap. That was just a live feed.

Written by Ilham on 30.06.2014 at 20:42
Going to check out that thing with Napalm Death.

i was at that. Was a cool concept but the sound was awful, and it kind of didn't really work in terms of destroying the sculpture, aside from people jumping over the security line and kicking it themselves.

I've seen Unflappable Urination a couple of times. Quite a fun band.

Written by Guest on 30.06.2014 at 20:44
i was at that. Was a cool concept but the sound was awful, and it kind of didn't really work in terms of destroying the sculpture, aside from people jumping over the security line and kicking it themselves.

I've seen Unflappable Urination a couple of times. Quite a fun band.

Aw. Shame. From what I heard ND can be very inconsistent with the quality of their shows. I saw them twice and it sucked both times.
Reminds me of the models we had to built in architecture that were designed to crumble after a certain amount of pressure but didn't. We discretely threw bricks at them if the teachers weren't looking.

Inflatable Urtication sounds very fun.

Written by Ilham on 30.06.2014 at 20:49

Aw. Shame. From what I heard ND can be very inconsistent with the quality of their shows. I saw them twice and it sucked both times.
Reminds me of the models we had to built in architecture that were designed to crumble after a certain amount of pressure but didn't. We discretely threw bricks at them if the teachers weren't looking.

Inflatable Urtication sounds very fun.

I've seen them a couple of other times too and they probably count amongst my favourite shows of all time

Throwing things is the answer to most problems I find.

I understand art doesn't need a point, but this seems like a gimmicky publicity stunt :/

Written by LascaillesShroud on 30.06.2014 at 21:49

I understand art doesn't need a point, but this seems like a gimmicky publicity stunt :/

I don't see that as an issue. It's entertaining, and the band gets some publicity. Everyone's a winner. Ultimately though it's about 10,875 times less retarded than this.

Written by Guest on 30.06.2014 at 21:55

I don't see that as an issue. It's entertaining, and the band gets some publicity. Everyone's a winner. Ultimately though it's about 10,875 times less retarded than this.

I had to write very long essays about "worse".

Written by Ilham on 30.06.2014 at 22:02

I had to write very long essays about "worse".

Sounds horrible. Art's stupidity often annoys me, but then that's probably the whole point.

Written by Guest on 30.06.2014 at 22:07
Sounds horrible. Art's stupidity often annoys me, but then that's probably the whole point.

I don't want to sound like a huge elitist contemporary art douche, but most of it unfortunately needs a lot of art knowledge to be understood. And it's made to be like that on purpose. So yes, quite enraging. I personally hate that about it.

Written by Ilham on 30.06.2014 at 22:12

I don't want to sound like a huge elitist contemporary art douche, but most of it unfortunately needs a lot of art knowledge to be understood. And it's made to be like that on purpose. So yes, quite enraging. I personally hate that about it.

Sounds just like art film which often require knowledge of the autere via his film making to properly grasp. Pretty much why I don't enjoy most art film.

Written by Guest on 30.06.2014 at 22:18

Sounds just like art film which often require knowledge of the autere via his film making to properly grasp. Pretty much why I don't enjoy most art film.

Indeed, I found myself walking out of a movie theatre for the first time in my life because I couldn't take the pretentious shit of an art film. I had more patience during Van Helsing.

Written by Ilham on 30.06.2014 at 22:24

Indeed, I found myself walking out of a movie theatre for the first time in my life because I couldn't take the pretentious shit of an art film. I had more patience during Van Helsing.

Ah, Van Helsing. I got through that film by looking at all the pretty people in it and little else.

Written by Guest on 30.06.2014 at 22:27

Ah, Van Helsing. I got through that film by looking at all the pretty people in it and little else.

I stayed because I was being friendzoned by the guy I went to the cinema with. I was desperately hoping he'd get jealous of the comments on Hugh Jackman.

Written by Ilham on 30.06.2014 at 22:30

I stayed because I was being friendzoned by the guy I went to the cinema with. I was desperately hoping he'd get jealous of the comments on Hugh Jackman.

Probably not one of the better evenings you've ever had then.

A enough chit chat here, back to Unfathomable Ruination

Yes, back to Unmemorable Menstruation.

I should check out Unforeseeable Rumination indeed.

I'm not sure I'd like Unforeseen Consequences.

I think you're confusing with Unsnaggable Ramifications.

Didn't they do a tour with Unpalatable Masturbation?

C'mon guys, you are basically asking for it now...

Written by Guest on 30.06.2014 at 21:55
I don't see that as an issue. It's entertaining, and the band gets some publicity. Everyone's a winner. Ultimately though it's about 10,875 times less retarded than this.

Hhahahahahaha what the fuck did I just watch. Soooo deep. :

Honestly, this thing looks retarded but they get exposure without anyone hearing anything. Interesting.

Yeah, back when they were called Unadapatable Mommification.
Are we going to get yelled at? I'm sorry Marcel, Joe started it. Take him.

Sounds uhh... artistic
:|



But with an 'u' instead of the 'r'

Written by Guest on 30.06.2014 at 23:37

Didn't they do a tour with Unpalatable Masturbation?

No, I've only done a tour with Uncomfortable Ejaculation.
In all seriousness though, I'd probably rather actually see the band play live instead of a box on the street, but I guess I've never heard the band so that may not be true.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.06.2014 at 23:41

Honestly, this thing looks retarded but they get exposure without anyone hearing anything. Interesting.

How is that retarded? It's a "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it" kind of experiment. Plenty of artists have worked on the concept of perception by hiding their actual artwork and wondering what the consequences in aesthetics are. It's a central question in contemporary art, and art in general, as we are relentlessly bombarded by visual and musical stimuli.

Nothing to do with music, but this very simple piece by Philippe Ramette (saw it in person) could be compared to what the band will do. What you see in the picture is a resin/polymer statue hidden behind a curtain. It is placed at the end of a long and empty white corridor, and the only thing you see is the feet. You have to get close to find out if it's really a person behind the curtain, or not. When you get closer, you realise there is a small hole in the curtain through which the eye of the statue has been looking at you all along. The curtain is the box; the feet you see from afar are the vibrations you hear coming from the box; and the peephole in the curtain is when you see the band enter and exit the box.

Written by Ilham on 01.07.2014 at 14:44

Written by X-Ray Rod on 30.06.2014 at 23:41

Honestly, this thing looks retarded but they get exposure without anyone hearing anything. Interesting.

How is that retarded? It's a "if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it" kind of experiment. Plenty of artists have worked on the concept of perception by hiding their actual artwork and wondering what the consequences in aesthetics are. It's a central question in contemporary art, and art in general, as we are relentlessly bombarded by visual and musical stimuli.

It does make more sense under that point of view. I'd give you that. I'm can't say I know much about that kind of art anyways.
I'm liking the stuff from a guy who plays BM with a friggin hammered dulcimer and defended the fact that his music still being metal so who am I to call stuff gimmicky, weird or stupid...

Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.07.2014 at 14:49

It does make more sense under that point of view. I'd give you that. I'm can't say I know much about that kind of art anyways.
I'm liking a guy who plays BM with a friggin hammered dulcimer so who am I to call stuff gimmicky.

The fact you worship a crazy person and the majestic fail when I talked to you about Francis Bacon (yes I'm going to use that all the time) doesn't give you the right to complain about how weird it is . I personally don't think it's weird at all.
No but seriously, the problem now with people is they react to art like little kids to maths, if they don't get it the first time, they call it stupid. And sometimes you just have to think a little. This is not about you, it's a general statement.

Written by Ilham on 01.07.2014 at 14:58

Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.07.2014 at 14:49

It does make more sense under that point of view. I'd give you that. I'm can't say I know much about that kind of art anyways.
I'm liking a guy who plays BM with a friggin hammered dulcimer so who am I to call stuff gimmicky.

The fact you worship a crazy person and the majestic fail when I talked to you about Francis Bacon (yes I'm going to use that all the time) doesn't give you the right to complain about how weird it is . I personally don't think it's weird at all.
No but seriously, the problem now with people is they react to art like little kids to maths, if they don't get it the first time, they call it stupid. And sometimes you just have to think a little. This is not about you, it's a general statement.

Regarding Bacon, I can only say that I recognized the pope series right away but never checked out his name. But yeah my bad.... I'm never gonna live past that, right?
I can get behind the second statement too. It sort of reminds me of John Cage's 4'33'' which is something I at first couldn't get.
After a while reading/listening to some of his thoughts regarding music and sound... I ended up appreciating his thoughts regarding the subject.

Written by X-Ray Rod on 01.07.2014 at 15:04

Regarding Bacon, I can only say that I recognized the pope series right away but never checked out his name. But yeah my bad.... I'm never gonna live past that, right?
I can get behind the second statement too. It sort of reminds me of John Cage's 4'33'' which is something I at first couldn't get.
After a while reading/listening to some of his thoughts regarding music and sound... I ended up appreciating his thoughts regarding the subject.

I'm just teasing you with the Bacon thing. I just loved the "how does this look like bacon?" part. You recognized the Pie X painting, you are totally absolved of your sins against art.
Oh John Cage, now we're talking. He did a lot of experiments on silence, the absence of public, etc, that could be related to this box thing indeed. He is part of a whole movement, if you want to explore more of the concepts behind what he did in music. The movement is called Fluxus, (even Yoko Ono was part of it) and one of my favourite artists in general and in that branch is Nam June Paik. Go through this, there are a lot of funny performances in there. There's even a Joe Jones performer.