Plopegg, was an art performance done by the Swiss artist Milo Moire at the German art fair in 2014. Moire stood naked in front of an audience on a pair of stepladders outside of the German art fair, where she proceeded to squeeze paint-filled eggs out of her vagina onto
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The famous philosopher and theologian Friedric Nietzsche once said “One must give value to their existence by behaving as if one’s very existence were a work of art” (Nietzsche). This idea that the human body is a work of art in itself has continued through the ages. From Michelangelo’s David
If you were wearing nothing- or a little bit of fabric- would you consider yourself nude? In most cases, you would say you are nude or declare that you were bordering on the edge of nudity. Now, if a professional artist painted on your body, would you still consider yourself
Performance artist Santiago Sierra is known for controversial art pieces that address systems of power that operate in our everyday lives, whether we acknowledge it or not. These operations that Sierra uncovers are usually those that marginalize and/or exploit certain populations within our society. To showcase these systemic injustices, Sierra
For the longest time, art was thought of as something an artist made, displayed and then left to the audience to figure out. The process of making art was seen as very cathartic and meant to be done alone. This translated to the audience as well, as art was meant
The concept of humanely killing someone is an odd one. To simply put it, there is no humane way to kill any living being. Death is a messy thing and no matter how we try to disguise it, there simply isn’t a nice way to do it. The current method
For a moment, I’d like you, the reader, to imagine yourself as an artist. You are more than likely an intellectual, capable of viewing the world from a multitude of perspectives beyond that of the average person. Perhaps you are conservative in your work, meticulous in planning, and take months
Ten months of fingerprints, an interview, an examination, close evaluations of my driving record and trips outside of the U.S. later, I have made it to my Naturalization Ceremony. Almost one year ago I applied to become a citizen of the United States of America, mailing in my N-400 application
Sophie Calle is an installation artist, photographer and writer from France. Her projects often explore the relationship between someone’s private life and public persona, and the concept of these two in general. Calle is known for going to great lengths to inspect people’s private lives for her work. One project
What would you do if you were going around the city to find a nude woman straddling the roof of a building? Would you consider it art or a crime? Earlier this month (November 2015), performance artist Poppy Jackson confused many by her four hour long performance, “Site,” that was