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.

[frejasface]

This is the kind of scandal and mess I don't mind. Keep entertaining me, girl.

[tetrazzinichikn]

I’m not even 40 yet but I’m too old for this I swear

[progression]

I didn’t know this was a thing, but I’ve had plenty of her videos pop up on my FYP over the years and I’ve only gotten like 2 right, lol.

Why would anyone believe that a person who made their career out of faking out people would actually… not fake them out? Lol.

This is fun and I like it. I’d rather watch the reveal of someone pretend they taped themselves to a wall than actually watching the that sort of “performance”.

[deadendqueen16]

Suddenly, the Koons is taping yourself to a wall for 3 days then revealing you did not actually do that