Vita Kari: Performance Artist or Stunt Queen; you decide!

[anterrabre]

Breaking News: this viral performance artist's latest endurance artwork, titled "ON THE WALL" was really all a facade. https://t.co/UgxiEayzP1
- Artnet (@artnet) September 6, 2024
Performance art is having a moment on TikTok, as many artists are attracted to that medium and post a variety of "works" (some interesting, some strange) regularly. One of

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[moronicus_kyla]

Isn't the staging of it part of the art piece also? I kind of think that's the concept. Her Tiktoks always involve her zooming out of the focus of the video to show the additional manual work she did to arrive at it.

[anterrabre]

It is, but the thing is she claimed she was up there for three days (and gave that impression on SM) but she was only up there for a few hours staging shots, and some people feel like that wasn't kosher. Other people feel like the staging and audience response was the whole point. There's definitely good points being made by both sides.

[eva_hagberg]

Which side you are on personally?

[anterrabre]

Kinda hard to say because both sides have good points, but I have to say while there's a certain amount of dishonesty here having viewers respond to their work in a "what you see isn't always what you get" and algorithms seems to be their thing. It's a tough call.

[bitchbot]

You're right, the staging is part of the piece. Her work is meta performance which brings up a bigger conversation on performance art itself. All of her work is based off illusion, artists have done it in other mediums why not this one.

Is the point of performance art or any art the "authenticity" or the message? I think it's the message. Purists of any medium will have a problem with others moving the barometer of authenticity.