3.14.2010

Flesh is my most favorite fabric - L. Bowery


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In this class, we observed the contemporary art from a fetishism point of view, which was shockingly refreshing. Above all, I was pleasantly hypnotized by people's obsessive dedication to their actual bodies as a form of expression. The artists such as Orlan and Liegh Bowery are often regarded as mad or too avant-garde by conventional standard. Still, I found their über advanced experiments thrilling especially now that we are living in the society where the experience of body modification is no longer rocket science. Can we think of anyone else who had done that to the extent that they did? I believe the guys from Little Britain were the one and only who had more or less pulled it off but only with a help of crazy sci-fi tech. In that sense, the pleasure of watching Little Britain feels not quite as organic as those of the legends'.





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