Meta Performance Art

by on July 15, 2007 at 7:05 am in The Arts | Permalink

I’m not a huge fan of performance art but I love this piece of meta performance art.  Damien Hirst (whose work features chopped up animals and maggots and flies) recently unveiled the most expensive piece of contemporary art ever, a skull encrusted with millions of dollars worth of diamonds.  In response, "Laura" created a similar skull using Swarovski crystals and in the middle of the night she dumped it outside the gallery along with a pile of trash.  Priceless.

Hurstskull1

Chris Meisenzahl July 15, 2007 at 8:43 am

LOL, nicely-done! ;-)

Alex Tabarrok July 15, 2007 at 11:13 am

Link fixed. No irony intended! Do take a look, it’s a classic.

AaAaa July 15, 2007 at 2:17 pm

Hurstskull1 link also broken.

Jack July 15, 2007 at 7:10 pm

See also the “Black Sheep” affair:
http://www.renewal.org.au/artcrime/pages/hirst.html

gorgo July 16, 2007 at 7:43 pm

I actually thought the cows looked pretty cool. That skull isn’t badly done either… other than being horribly unnecessary. I guess what’s really horrifying about it is that it shows just how popular this guy is. THAT as a $99 million work of art by a living artist? Ew.

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Marlene Molina May 5, 2009 at 3:29 am

Hola quisiera saber que es lo que hace de esa instalación una metaperformance??

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