Designated Doodler

Okay, so I have fifteen minutes until Whose Line starts and I figured I should share more about my disturbing art history class...just incase you weren't already disturbed enough. Don't forget that it is my personal view that none of this is art and the majority of these works are "abominable," and no, not like the snowman. We'll start with the lesser disturbing and work our way up...take Acconci's "Trademarks" for example, where "the artist" sat naked in a gallery and proceeded to bite himself. Yes, I said bite himself. He bit wherever his mouth could reach and left "trademarks" all over his body. I'm not sure how he ended up in a gallery and not in a padded room. Continuing on the theme of nudity...VALIE EXPORT (In Tap and Touch) took the mental scarring public by being in public with her upperbody encased in a cardboard box...that opened to the front...with drapes. She let strangers (dudes) reach in and touch her fun bags. ...

What is art? Everyone has their own definition. But I've stumbled upon a type of "art" that I refuse to call "art." The movement of Actionism is little known to the general populous and consists of a myriad of disturbing works that I've been forced to learn about through an upper level art history class. It's a good thing I go into this class every T and TH hungry. So first of all, lets define actionism, this is how Term Wiki describes it "English version of general German term for Performance art, but was specifically used for the name of the Vienna-based group Wiener Aktionismus founded in 1962. The principal members of the group were Gunter Brus, Hermann Nitsch and Rudolph Schwarzkogler." So it's this type of "art" that (from what I can tell) utilizes dead animals, genitals and blood to create "pieces of art." Take for example Acconi's Seedbed, Sonnabend Gallery, NYC 1972. The picture looks unassuming enough and y...