Performance art often skirts the line between criminal and art and Milo Moiré was a little too much on the criminal side and was arrested by the London police for public indecency. Moiré’s newest work, Mirror Box, allowed the public to touch her breast and vagina in this mirror box
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http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/31709/1/artist-arrested-for-getting-strangers-to-stroke-her-genitals A Swiss woman artist named Milo Moire walked around many European cities, with only two mirror boxes covering her breasts and vagina. She then asked strangers to touch either her breast or vagina for 30 seconds to make a statement that women and men are equal in sexuality instead
When I think about art I think of it as an expression of ones ideals, beliefs or viewpoints. By this definition one can consider protesting as a form of art because it is taking action to support a certain belief. Peaceful protesting has continuously been utilized throughout our history to
Martha Wilson is an American feminist and an accomplished performance artist. Throughout her career, she has developed a number of photographic and video works that explore her individual femininity through such performances as role-playing. Much of feminist thinking and activism has stemmed from the question of what women want. More
In the article “Slicing up a Limo as a Metaphor for Detroit,” artist Jon Sasaki, a team of students from Cranbrook Art Academy, and two well-known welders sliced and diced a luxurious limousine into several irrelevant pieces. The destruction of the limousine included a more intricate motive other than the
Joe Gibbons is an unconventional film maker and artist who has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His work is largely centered around a character named Joe Gibbons, and no this isn’t the same Joe Gibbons that taught at MIT. This Joe Gibbons is a completely different character, a
The definition of art is yet again blurred with the work of Berlin-based performance artist Mischa Badasyan. In his latest performance piece, Badasyan planned to use his body as a canvas and have a sexual encounter with a new partner every day for 365 consecutive days. He titled this piece
Marina Abramovic is touted as one of the most notable perfomance artists. She is nearly 70, and has an extensive profile of work. I recall vividly two of her works. The first features her and a lover, with an arrow poised to shoot at her. It’s part of a greater
Doing a quick google search of female artists pulls up a variety of sources, primarily young, white actresses and singers. Minorities are heavily ignored in the art world, but many people are coming into the foreground and ther woman I stumbled upon is Ana Mendieta. She was a Cuban-American artists
For many years, artists have been dabbling with crime in the name of art or to create an art piece. However, Joseph Gibbons, a former MIT lecturer and filmmaker, seems to have taken this idea to the extreme. He is a performance artist who specializes in autobiographical confessionalism. He uses