rePerformance: "VELVET WATER" - Don Simmons

[popejoanrose]

Don- You need to read "Contract With the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970's" by Kathy O'Dell if you have not already!!

[methaddict99]

i don't get it! lol!

[FraterO]

That was just a really silly thing to do ;)

[pishdad]

The problem with this work is that you never breathed the water eventhough you believed it to be a thicker, richer carrier of oxygen. Fact is that you cannot breathe water and that is the achilles heal in this work. All the water was spit out each time the performer took his head out and spat out the water. QED. Works of art must be, forgive the pun, more water-tight! Ha, ha, ha!

[userjoshc]

i saw thes recreater breathing a bunch of air in between water breathes

[lbdsm7]

You might as well get a paint-by-numbers Monet kit.

[ttttkr]

Chris Burden did it better.

Regurgitated masochism is a waste of your time and health. You might just as well cultivate his mustache.

[WallJay]

way to go, I also re-performed a piece by Chris Burden, "Back to You"

[clckwrkpnk]

How did that go? Where did the audience member place the pins?

[ckuh001]

Where there any side effects from attempting to breath water??

[romney27]

near death

[nadador64]

i watched this and i still don't understand the experience of extreme body performances... is the emphasis on the act or the reaction? is masochism an art form?

[romney27]

surrealism

[RichieBees]

lol this is odd