Get Me Out of Here


My class is stupid. Not just what we're learning but the actual people in my class...not the sharpest Prismacolors in the box. We had an option to either not have class today or to come in and watch a video....guess what they voted for.....CLASS. WTF?!?!

So here I sit, watching videos of Chris Burden doing some crazy shiz that he considered "art."

These things include watching him light pants on fire...watching him lay in bed for 22 days in a gallery...watching him lie down naked (in a gallery) with two glass shelves on his shoulders, having gas poured on the shelves and having them lit on fire...watching him get drunk and high in a gallery...watching him crawl through glass (mostly NAKED) in "Through the night softly," watching him lay in the street in the dark under a tarp with flares until he was arrested....watching him get shot in a gallery...

Oh yeah and he set up his body on a car in a crucifixion-like manner and nailed his hands/feet to the car and the car backed out of a garage and drove back in. As a Christian I'm pretty offended; to say the least.

I mean, this guy shouldhave been in a tight white jacket in a padded room, not being paid for being an artist....

This is totally nuts and my stomach hurts and I just want to go home and take a nap but no I'm here...desperately trying to finish my minor.

"Back to you," takes place in an elevator, and monitors are placed at elevator shaft and a volunteer goes in and STICKS PUSH PINS into "the artist" Chris Burden.

Is it just me or does this guy seem like a masochist? I mean, the word "nuts" doesn't even begin to cover it. If it weren't for this blog and a notebook I would consider this class a total waste of time

OH AND IT JUST GOT WORSE........................

In Velvet Water he puts his head in water and BREATHES IN WATER...calling it the opposite of drowning because he sees it as a richer, thicker oxygen. And this is still continuing on....I couldn't stand to watch let alone listen to the sound of someone drowning so I put in my headphones......Boys Like Girls is desperately trying to drown out the drowning. And this continued on for minute after minute after minute. Un-fricking believable. You know, I generally believe that most people have some redeeming quality but not this dude. This dude needed to be on anti-psychotics.

I want to like...report this class. I mean, is a college education supposed to inflict mental harm on a person? I feel like I'm being mentally scarred. I felt the need to leave class. I still want to leave. I hate this class....with a passion. And I don't care that I'm saying this openly for all the blog world to see, I don't even care if my professor sees it.

I feel mentally violated...and kind of ticked. I was misled into this class and now have to suffer through it.

Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 14, 2011 at 3:50 PM

    i think you have a great perspective on the damage academic freedom can inflict upon the malleable mind and persona of a university student. this professor is obviously enthralled with expressive behavior that defies the norm and has assumed a personal mission to open the eyes of others with little regard that it only generates a shallow and disturbing learning experience for the class. how very very sad.

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  2. RRNovember 16, 2011 at 7:45 PM

    Epic comment, thanks!

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