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Cow Art
This is part of a comment I wrote over on Askville. I've probably written about this before, but not for a long time.
Here's a performance art piece I once dreamed up. I never actually performed it - in fact, I never did ANY performance art, though I saw some pretty strange ones - but here's my idea:
The artist leads a cow into the room. The audience is encouraged to pat the cow, perhaps feed it some grain or hay, water it...make friends with it for a little while. As they do, the artist drags in plastic sheeting and lays it down all over the area.
Then it's time for the audience to say goodbye to their new mooing friend, because the artist slaughters the steer in front of their eyes. S/he goes on to butcher it, cutting it into steaks, chops, etc. and discussing the whole process in a running commentary.
Lastly the artist grinds up some of the meat into hamburgers, and cooks them right there on the stage. Burgers are offered to all in the audience.
It would be a long show...but I think the audience would remember it! :D
Here's a performance art piece I once dreamed up. I never actually performed it - in fact, I never did ANY performance art, though I saw some pretty strange ones - but here's my idea:
The artist leads a cow into the room. The audience is encouraged to pat the cow, perhaps feed it some grain or hay, water it...make friends with it for a little while. As they do, the artist drags in plastic sheeting and lays it down all over the area.
Then it's time for the audience to say goodbye to their new mooing friend, because the artist slaughters the steer in front of their eyes. S/he goes on to butcher it, cutting it into steaks, chops, etc. and discussing the whole process in a running commentary.
Lastly the artist grinds up some of the meat into hamburgers, and cooks them right there on the stage. Burgers are offered to all in the audience.
It would be a long show...but I think the audience would remember it! :D