Well that's something

Okay, that´s - interesting. Definitely a good model a genius artist like you can work with.

what...

What is this I don't even... I guess it's not that weird for a play, if that's what it was.

.....interesting, in a Freudian way.....very interesting.

It's art Jim, but not as we know it.

That was... surprisingly effective. I wonder if the actors watched piglets being born and had instructions like "you're aggressive, shove the others" or only a rough "roll around out there." Rehearsal must have been something.

Oh, it's exactly what I thought it was going to be. How nice. I'm going to go ahead and not for now, as I just ate breakfast and I know the smells and sounds of this all too well.

holds up finger...opens mouth to say something...just slightly waves finger and shuts mouth.

Oh...my!

Oh man, I love saeborg's stuff, I'm not really into inflatables or latex, but he makes the whole scene super compelling! If you haven't seen his other stuff, you need to at least check out his slaughterhouse 9 show! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w7EH4hWI-g

The jp scene, in general, is wild.

Yeah i was binging this stuff last night! As much as i could find anyway. I saw a film of that one on their site but didn't find it on youtube! (I'd have posted that here instead if i had seen it on YT, tbh)
It's really unique and i love it

Wow, that vid is pretty visceral. I may binge his stuff...

NGL I fucking love weird surreal shit like this.

Art makes the world interesting

you think so? then what is art?

I would say, it is anything a person does or creates for the sole purpose of making the world more interesting

so you're saying that art cannot exist without the intent?

that hiding things cannot be an art?

that art is what every teacher should be doing?

I don't know what your issue is, but chill. If you don't like the video i posted then move on

but the thing is that i'm chill... i may not look like it agreed.

it's not about the video, i want to understand, is it really what art is?

I don't know, but you could look it up and compare all the definitions until you come to a consensus. I'm not a teacher, i just draw shit

that's... a bit belittling...

how could that at all be belittling. meanwhile everything youve said has been hostile agitated. calm down, move on, if you dont like it you dont like it

this is crap.

a bold statement, but i'd rather say what i think than pretend to be part of the group of "intellectuals who understood"

to be more precise the show is crap, not the props or the performance. it's like if we made a show on... well... a street fire? and there is no story, it just happens, no after no before, just a fire.

personally i find such thing... like... a cake without flour nor substitute for it. and with salt instead of sugar. overcooked also, not by a lot, but still.

and i don't even like most cakes to begin with but i digress.

Art doesn't have to have a story or a meaning at all. Art for art's sake is its own genre.

Also, it looks like this was at a fetish festival of sorts, so that's probably its meaning.

I'm not necessarily a "modern art" (as in the stereotypical canvas painted white with a couple black slashes) fan but I do LOVE to hear/read the meaning the artist intended, especially if its genuine and makes sense to what is depicted.
I haven't even bothered to analyze any of these guy's pieces because I enjoy latex at face value. I tends to be an art form that is innately weird, which is the thing that draws me in the most. But I'd love to find out what he intended the message to be.
Slaughterhouse 9 certainly has a pro-vegetarian feel to it. Pigpen, however, feels considerably more sexualized.

I'm assuming Rubber Festival is a fetish event, so that makes the whole thing a bit less surreal but very interesting nonetheless. I would love to think it was just a giant installation in a completely vanilla art space, though, that would be fucking funny

Some of these performances seem to be in regular art spaces, at least i saw a kid in one of the videos. Though there's a fetish element to this artist's stuff, it's seemingly intended to express things (and even this one looks like it belongs more in an art space than a kink festival imo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdn4BFmksts
Like this one, Athens Biennale is apparently a culture/art festival in Greece, which is a big deal in contemporary art i guess
Though they do definitely do some fetish scene stuff i think they actually bridge the gap, which is interesting in its own right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w7EH4hWI-g

This stuff is so unusual, i can't get enough of it xD

The fucking description omg
"Is it a queer performance of operatic proportions or an allegory created to initiate kids in veganism? Are those cute piglets to be hugged and petted or are they bloated sexual fantasies to be acted out in role-playing?"

I mean, a fair share of contemporary and historical art that you can find in any art museum has fetishistic or erotic undertones to it, (as humans like to do such things)but brazen latex displays tend to veer more towards the kinky side. Buuuuut maybe that's just how it is in America (Although latex is more popular in Europe it seems)
Defintley very interesting, that video is also really neatly made.

I remember a similar "show" where a pig get slaughtered (inflatable latex cast, like this). Possibly the same artist.

Oh yeah, probably a version of this show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3w7EH4hWI-g
Same people :)

Yeah, that's the one. The country girl getting naked at the end was always the strangest part to me.

I can't tell if this is fetish fuel or a statement about the industrialization of agriculture treating animals like a product for consumption. or both. either way I love it! xD