Art – I guess

Cafe Society
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French artist wants to create big 1 cubic metre container filled with 1000 litres, or 1 tons, of human sperm. Apparently (my French teacher – a pretty petite Parisian with the cutes accent btw. - never prepared me for this!) apparently he expects people to supply it voluntary, or he’ll pay 100 euro for 200 deposits. So how many deposits will it take to reach 1 ton anyhow.
Sperm Cube

Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth, latest art project, consist of paying poor Africans to drop their own name in exchange for his, in which case he’ll give them a a pig or a goat. So far 307 Ugandans are called Hornsleth.
The Hornsleth Village in Uganda 2006

  • from the mere disgusting to the just disgusting, and for this we dumped Beethoven and Michelangelo. Way to go humans!
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We didn’t “dump” Beethoven and Michelangelo, they died. Plenty of people still enjoy their work, they are both household names, and snippets or images of their art products are quite prevalent in modern society. Meanwhile, other people are trying different things than they did.

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No. Not art.

I’d like to announce that I’m beginning to collect funds for my next artistic endeavor. I plan to hire several burly men to throw Kristian von Hornsleth into the cube of sperm. Anyone want to donate?

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If you make a donation to the sperm cube, you get a very fine donation card, you proudly can go show to your mom and dad, wife or kids. Yippe!

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You could give away pins like the Red Cross Blood Donors have:
“Sperm Cube: 5 liter donor”

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duh me. The sperm-cube site was in English too. Though I have yet to find any documentation of weather he’s going to end the work of art in a monster big Gokkun session.

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Re: Sperm cube.

All together now:

Ewwww!!!

It’s things like this that give Modern Art a bad name.

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well, at 10cc per “deposit”…100 000, I think. But I don’t think the density of sperm/semen is the same as water, so it won’t weigh a ton (1000 kg).

It’s art, I suppose, but I don’t have to like it.

The Hornsleth thing may be a comedy act, but not what I’d call “art” - meaning fine vs. performing arts, if you follow.

Now, taping people *making *their cube donations, that’d be performance art…

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Oh, I’m all over that one.

Not 'cause it’s art, but just because it sounds fun. And eew. Definitely eew.

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I think we should lock David Blaine in there for a month once it’s full.

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Regarding the Hornsleth thing, there’s a comment on the page from a Ugandan who actually lives in the village where this was done. He says that the people all wanted to do it, not just for the animal, but also because it’s a statement regarding the aid given to Ugandans by other countries. It’s pointing out how all the aid is conditional - we give you this if you do this for us.
As for the sperm cube… I think miss elizabeth has the best idea.

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10cc is way high. It’s going to take a great many patrons of the arts to fill this thing up.

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I think he’s asking us to pay - looks like we can either donate sperm or money. Somehow 100 euro is equivalent to 200 deposits? :confused:

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Each night I will pray that Kristian von Hornsleth may drown in the cube of sperm.

Now that’s art.

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Has the Pope been notified? He is going to be seriously, seriously upset at the waste of all these fine pre-Catholics.

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New Japanese carnival game:

Bukkake Dunk Tank!!!

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Am I the only one who thinks both these ideas are brilliant?

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Imagines all the ‘Wanking For Art Night’ flyers now litering the streets of Paris

Perhaps this will be used afterwards as a new ‘less invasive’ artificial insemination program. Women will swim around nude in the cube while Patrick Stewart’s voice will blare out of loudspeakers, alternating between “Resistance Is Futile” and “Make it so, Number One”.

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Nah, I think they’re great too.

I’m always amused in threads like this at how many people take avant garde art as some sort of personal affront … .

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Moved from IMHO to CS.