We met Marcus Coates at an RSPB nature reserve to talk about his new work, The Plover's Wing, which is on show at Tate Britain during Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009. www.tate.org.uk/britain
The residents of the tower block in Liverpool were originally part of the performance after all - surely they can be more than mute observers and be given the opportunity to comment on the performance within this document? My main point is that shamanism has at it's center a system of belief (which can be very powerful). Without that belief it is essentially powerless posturing for effect. It is a short step to actually seeing this performance as mocking shamanism...
@almanacofsleep why would understanding the participants perception necessarily kill the performance? (such a dramatic choice of word). It would simply change how we as viewers receive the film. We are not witnessing the performance here but a recording of it edited and mediated through youtube.
@carragher67 Whats that information actually going to do? The only thing I can think of is knowing the perception of the audience would "solve" the work, which is to kill it.
porn is the forbidden art that is not shown in art gallery's why hate?
MrCdaddypuff 3 days ago
Trolling is an art.
ClikeWorks 3 days ago
Not sure if serious or troll
blackoutpa 3 days ago
wtb: what he's smoking
buttdagger 3 days ago
Modern Art is embarassing. That is all.
inb4 I don't understand or I'm not deep enough.
Rockmaster92 3 days ago
this is one of the most mentul but brilliant things ive ever seen......
carltaylor43 9 months ago
The residents of the tower block in Liverpool were originally part of the performance after all - surely they can be more than mute observers and be given the opportunity to comment on the performance within this document? My main point is that shamanism has at it's center a system of belief (which can be very powerful). Without that belief it is essentially powerless posturing for effect. It is a short step to actually seeing this performance as mocking shamanism...
carragher67 10 months ago
@almanacofsleep why would understanding the participants perception necessarily kill the performance? (such a dramatic choice of word). It would simply change how we as viewers receive the film. We are not witnessing the performance here but a recording of it edited and mediated through youtube.
carragher67 10 months ago
@carragher67 Whats that information actually going to do? The only thing I can think of is knowing the perception of the audience would "solve" the work, which is to kill it.
almanacofsleep 10 months ago
Emperor's cloth
utube321go 11 months ago