While spending an entertaining afternoon at the Andy Warhol Museum the other day I encountered this object in The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974 - 84. Anyone recognize it? It's sort of a leftover bit from a well known performance piece. This particular artifact points to the challenge that performance art poses to collectors - what do you buy after the performance? What's there to collect?
The whole show seemed to swing somewhere between art and documentation of the "scene", so this seems like a nice piece to highlight. Should the mystery object not be identified in the comments I'll fill you in somewhere down the road. . .
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My fear is that someone will make a weapon out of something like this, and then no woman will be allowed on an airplane.
Never mind what is left after the performance. If a truck passes by it, will it be musical?
"Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?" --John Cage
y'know, that's the kind of question that keeps me up at nights. . .
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