Mission Statements

[martin ewen]

art is resonance

Between art being definitively useless and the art of the dick joke its apparent that the art concept is a slippery elastic wee critter indeed.
Art being useless strikes me as a bit of a deliberately contentious position to take. The word useless is loaded. Art has a function else it would not exist. Whatever function it may have is its use.
What's practical or not is subjectively determined by an individuals needs. Drawing interesting lines in the sand i.e. useful= non art is a parlor game.
Art itself is a parlor game, (a disposable income is an advantage,)
Creating laughter is a science, an art, an abstract game, a living, a vocation, a means to an end.
Its not particularily difficult, keeping yourself interested is the hard part. But as we all know, having some old woman drop to one knee weeping with laughter as her mascara runs down her face. Thats art. (Unless it was a dick joke or she's senile-my rules)
I have a quote I use in my promo.
"I couldn't tell you if it was art, but I Can tell you there is an art to it."
My opinion is that art and performance share the faculty wherein there worth exists as a construct within peoples heads, the performance or art simply contains triggers.
Laughter's the best trigger I've ever met. Unless its a dick joke or your senile...or maybe an evil villain...or I don't like you..or your laughing AT me...or maybe I should think about this some more.

[Ivan Bellari]

De duobus malis, minus est semper eligendum

i don't think i want some one to define art for me... anymore than i want someone to define me...

is art something that can be defined? truly? well i'm sure there are defintions... but in the end some could argue that anything that draws a more than average reaction is art...

and i think perhaps that all art is practical and usefull, if you bend the defintions of practicality an usage a little...

we had a foggy show once and the haze made it all a little sureal .. our line of humor went from the sublime to the extreeme.. literary references that made some giggle.. to jokes that danced over the line of tastefull....

was any of it useful? maybe.. laughter is usefull, was any of it art... i think some people my have considered it art... do i?

well some things i think of as art include movies like requiem for a dream and dawn of the dead ( both versions ) any frank miller book any commercial that makes me weep good sushi... and a properly done hug.....or thousands of people cheering my name...

in the end arguing art is like arguing faith.. everyone has their own view.. and maybe everyone is right a little and wrong a little..

but performers are artists at their best and whores at their worst...( and maybe whores are performers at their worst and artists at their best ..... then again artists may be performing whores at the best of the worst.....)

perhaps defining art is a way to control it.. perhaps controling it makes it not art...

perhaps i shouldn't have eaten the special cookie...

if you want to think of yourself as an artist then do that...
at my best i think of my self as someone who trys to communicate.. at my worst a rambling fool who can't spell...

you can chuck as much shit as you want and point at rules and defintions .. but the answer to what art is.. is truly an individuals choice...

there is a place for everything, from the vile to the devine.. and all of it may be art even if it is grotesque. or even ( shudder ) popular.

[Airborne Dan]

The definition of art!

Has anyone ever noticed that "art" is just "fart" without the "f". Wow, I think that is the single deepest thought I've ever had.

[scot]

If you're just browsing the forum, here are the best two paragraphs in the thread.


Martin::But as we all know, having some old woman drop to one knee weeping with laughter as her mascara runs down her face. Thats art. (Unless it was a dick joke or she's senile-my rules)

Ivan::but performers are artists at their best and whores at their worst...( and maybe whores are performers at their worst and artists at their best ..... then again artists may be performing whores at the best of the worst.....)

[newyorkstreetdean]

But what if your blue is not the same as my blue?

I once had a professor tell me the meaning of life; The meaning of life is in the moments when you don't ask what the meaning of life is.

Perhaps Art is defined in the moments where you don't need to have a definition for it.


Christ, I have'nt even been drinking or anything.

[Doctor Eric]

I was just about to post my feelings and theories on the nature of art, and then remembered how !@#?ing bizaare they are and thought better of it.

[jester]

Dr Eric. Do us all a favour and post your bizarre views. I for one really want to hear it, you are funniest when you are being bizarre.

It took me many months to even begin to understand your warped, disagreeable, but none the less valid views. Don't hold back on me now.

[Evan Young]

Re: The definition of art!

Originally posted by Airborne Dan
Has anyone ever noticed that "art" is just "fart" without the "f". Wow, I think that is the single deepest thought I've ever had.

notice the title of my earlier post.... "putting the f back in art"

Duh Dan, you fucking moron!

[Airborne Dan]

Happy Birthday Evan! You fucking dweeb!

Did you know that egg farts are among the most rancid, smelly things known to man? Do you care? Probably not. Why? Because you're Evan fucking egg eater Young.

This is Evan doing a juggling show:

"Hi everybody (bpthththt) excuse me. My name is (bpthbpth) Evan. Pardon me (bpthbpthbpth) oops. I will now (bpthpthbbpth) juggle these razor (bpthpthbppth) sharp (bpththbpth) machetes while floating (bpthbpth) in the air (bvpthbthp) suspended only by a giant egg fart (bpbpthbpthbbthpbthpbhthhpbhtpbbthpbhtp)"!