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As a youth with certain proclivities towards "alternative lifestyles" (and with two roommates attending local art schools), I inevitably (for better or for worse) find myself taking in the efforts/events/"happenings" of the local youth-oriented fine arts scene. As a perpetual observer of these loosely-knit mesomorphic organizations but never a direct participant (save the time I was featured in a weeklong interior design showcase at the Uvic gallery), I have predictably come up with some suggestions for projects that I feel would be appropriate but I myself have neither the brio nor nepotism to pull off. Thus: the internet!
THREE POTENTIAL "PERFORMANCE ART" PIECES:
1> A white gallery room contains nothing but a stainless steel table, a few boxes of baking soda, a torch, and a large pile of cocaine on a pedestal. As the audience wanders through the room throughout the course of the evening, the artist removes spoonfuls of cocaine from the pile, transports them to the table, and synthesizes crack rock.
2> The artist, through whatever means necessary, acquires a pile of semiautomatic weapons and stolen passports. These are placed on a stainless steel table in the back of a white gallery room. A dozen or so burly "biker" type men are hired to stand in the room; their job, along with the artist, is to encourage (through shouting and intimidation but no actual physical force) spectators to take a passport and an AK-47 and leave the gallery.
3> The artist contacts a group of spectators and arranges a nighttime meeting outdoors in a commercial district where the performance is to take place. Once a sizeable group of spectators has gathered the artist removes a crowbar from a burlap sack, finds the nearest plate glass storefront window and smashes it. The artist removes objects from behind the obliterated window, places them in the hands of spectators, and instructs them to "fucking run!".