"... at Ohio State University in 1969. Here he ran repeatedly at full speed into opposite walls of a gallery until he was unable to proceed. The recording was then played in the open gallery, leaving visitors to deduce his actions from sound alone: footsteps, impact and slowing pace. He allotted 30 seconds for each run. In one interview he said he had kept it up for an hour and 45 minutes (more than 200 sprints), at which point friends ended the performance, fearing for his health. The recorded piece is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. By contrast, some Le Va works were overtly gentle, even serene. An especially beautiful example, from 1968-69, was made entirely of chalk dust.... The material, gathered into dunelike drifts, resembled an indoor earthwork. It was swept up and discarded when the show closed this month...."
From "Barry Le Va, Whose Floor-Bound Art Defied Boundaries, Dies at 79/Extolling horizontality, he made sculptures from felt, flour, glass sheets and even meat cleavers. Elsewhere, in a performance piece, his body was a sprinting projectile" by Roberta Smith (NYT).
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I don't understand art.
Went out the way he lived. Conning the kiddies.
The recorded piece is in the collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Dunno about the rest of you, but I'm safe from it.
"...he ran repeatedly at full speed into opposite walls of a gallery... ...he said he had kept it up for an hour and 45 minutes (more than 200 sprints)..."
At an hour and forty-five minutes and 200 sprints and still standing I question his definition of "full-speed".
I am Laslo.
That's not performance art.
This is performance art (https://spotsrampage.com/)
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/spots-rampage-event-awakens-us-reality-dystopian-world-ahead
You think "Off Center" was just making the best of a mistake?
If it sounded like Wile E. Coyote hitting the rock wall with a painted tunnel on it, then it at least had the artistic value of making kids laugh aloud at his stupid behavior.
If I learned anything from the Road Runner cartoons, it was that perseverence in idiocy is still just idiocy, no matter what your goal is.
100 years from now, who will know or care about this "art"?
I remember reading a work of fiction in which characters could walk through walls if only they believed they could... or something. Does that ring a bell with any of you?
He would have made it to 99 if he hadn't kept purposefully running into walls at full speed.
Couple of cards missing in that deck.
@AA...normal people like me cannot read most NYT articles...paywall and all that rot.
"“Hurry,” she said. “You have to get out of here. This is the only way.” I moved through the darkness as the woman drew me on. I could hear the doorknob turning slowly. The sound sent chills down my spine. At the very moment the light from the corridor pierced the darkness, we slipped into the wall. It had the consistency of a gigantic mass of cold gelatin; I clamped my mouth shut to prevent its coming inside. The thought struck me: I’m passing through the wall! In order to go from one place to another, I was passing through a wall. And yet, even as it was happening, it seemed like the most natural thing to do. I felt the woman’s tongue coming into my mouth. Warm and soft, it probed every crevice and it wound around my own tongue. The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs. Down in my loins, I felt a dull need to come. Clamping my eyes closed, I fought it. A moment later, I felt a kind of intense heat on my right cheek. It was an odd sensation. I felt no pain, only the awareness that there was heat there. I couldn’t tell whether the heat was coming from the outside or boiling up inside me. Soon everything was gone: the woman’s tongue, the smell of flowers, the need to come, the heat on my cheek. And I passed through the wall. When I opened my eyes I was on the other side of the wall—at the bottom of a deep well."
Murakami, Haruki. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International) . Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
"I remember reading a work of fiction in which characters could walk through walls if only they believed they could... or something. Does that ring a bell with any of you?"
In 'Mystery Men' there is a character that can turn invisible, but only when no one is looking.
Does that count?
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"@AA...normal people like me cannot read most NYT articles...paywall and all that rot."
Oh really?
"I felt the woman’s tongue coming into my mouth. Warm and soft, it probed every crevice and it wound around my own tongue.
Naughty girl...
"The Men Who Stare at Goats" includes Althouse's scenario.
I am Laslo.
"Oh really?"
In theory it can be done if you use private windows, VPNs, clear cache, etc., but even that doesn't always work...
In the 'old days' they were pretty easy to bypass, but the content folks are getting trickier.
Fiction about walking through walls based upon belief in ability to do so is fairly commone.
1. A Superman episode from the early TV show has Superman "vibrating " his body to a frequency allowing him to walk through the walls of a bank vault to rescue Lois, who was locked inside.
2. Heinlein's "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls" describes a multiverse wherein a fictional superhero in one version of reality is a real person in another, and travel between them is facile.
3. Some of Pratchett's Discworld characters such as Death himself, and Death's granddaughter Susan Sto Helit, can walk through walls. Nothing stops Death, and his relatives sorta inherited his abilities. Reaper Man, Thief of Time, and Soul Music cover this pretty fully.
4. "Walking Through Walls" by Cioffi seems an obvious answer.
5. CS Lewis: Perilandra, with beings able to walk through walls not because the walls weren't real, but because the beings were more real.
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There's a way: You copy the URL of the NYT article into bit.ly and grab the shortened URL. Then you copy that into here: outline.com Wala. Yes?
6. Of course, the Road Runner could use the painted tunnel on the rock wall to RUN through the rock wall at full speed. Was the Coyote's inability to do so due to a lack of imagination, or a lack of belief, or too high an intelligence to think it could be accomplished?
"Was the Coyote's inability to do so due to a lack of imagination, or a lack of belief, or too high an intelligence to think it could be accomplished?
'Too high an intelligence' was clearly not a factor : )
There's another story about an "artist" whose "art" consists of cutting off pieces of his body; fingers, toes, etc. until his final act of "art" is cutting off his head.
I thought that was the most ridiculous story I'd ever read until I chanced upon an article about Chris Burden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burden
Truth is often stranger than fiction.
If you clear your cookies of anything smacking of the new york times, like nyt.com nytimes.com etc, before clicking on the link you can get in.
(Search your cookies for "ny" then delete them. Easy in Firefox, probably easy in other browsers.)
Joe, the Coyote was intelligent. And he had enough ready cash to order only the best materials from ACME for his creative efforts at catching the Roadrunner. It was obsession that was his undoing, his tragic hubris that he could catch the bird. That and his complete inability to utilize cartoon physics to his own benefit led to his pratfalls, not a lack of intelligence.
If you hit "Esc" as soon as the page finishes loading but before the paywall comes up, you can read the article.
To read articles behind paywalls simply paste the URL into www.archive.is
The only website I have encountered that this does not work on is runnersworld.com
Simple.
All these years later- Jackass resulting.
Masochistic machismo.
That’s art? Are those appreciative sadists, then? Lord, save us from ourselves pls.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/child-abuse-wenatchee-high-school-forces-kids-band-play-bubbles-parents-nothing/
Performance art...
If he'd called it "Breaking the Fourth Wall" he might've g-a-r-n-e-r-e-d H'wood interest. But, of course, that would've cheapened his art.
Why can't all artists be Normal Rockwell? I don't know, ask Lana Del Ray.
You could pay for the NYT content instead of being a thief.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/not-making-headlines-california-man-films-facebook-live-two-dead-women-floor-killed-including-minor/
Performance art...
>>Here he ran repeatedly at full speed into opposite walls of a gallery until he was unable to proceed...he said he had kept it up for an hour and 45 minutes (more than 200 sprints), at which point friends ended the performance, fearing for his health<<
His health probably would have been improved by a psychiatrist.
"Joe, the Coyote was intelligent."
Not convinced...he looked down the barrel of far too many cannon with lit fuses : )
Here he ran repeatedly at full speed into opposite walls of a gallery until he was unable to proceed.
In my day we'd say, "he ate too much sugar."
I remember reading a work of fiction in which characters could walk through walls if only they believed they could... or something. Does that ring a bell with any of you?
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David Copperfield's autobiography recounting walking through the Great Wall of China?
The piece is entitled, "Dumbass Hurting Himself On Purpose, a Retrospective on a Waste of Skin and Air"
100 years from now, who will know or care about this "art"?
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It's unlikely that anyone will be able to see it. The only technology that survives long term is paper/canvas and ink/paint.
"@AA...normal people like me cannot read most NYT articles...paywall and all that rot."
Oh really?
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I'm hoping that's a sarcastic reply.
This guy took Archimedes too personally. "Give me Mr. Le Va, and I can move the world!"
Who knew I was an artist while playing organized football for a decade. Most sane people can get through a NYT article because their eyes tear up from laughing. To much navel gazing.
The recording was then played in the open gallery, leaving visitors to deduce his actions from sound alone: footsteps, impact and slowing pace.
Could only have been recorded by a madman
I felt the woman’s tongue coming into my mouth.
Did she get consent first, or was it rape?
Joe Smith said...
...normal people like me cannot read most NYT articles...
Is the real issue the paywall, or the illiteracy?
Bach, Vittore Carpaccio, Anthony Burgess and Barry Le Va. Artists all, eh?
Joe, you have a very good point. I suggest we adopt the Bostonian phrase, "stupid smaht" to describe the coyote.
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