"Terrorists are the last true performance artists." -- Laurie Anderson
"The greatest surrealist act would be to point a loaded revolver into the crowd and then fire at random." -- Andre Breton
Brings a new meaning to the concept of High Weirdness by Mail...
That's almost word-for-word what the police said about the letter bomb sent to Bob Black.
Yet have to figure why any artist would not be lapidated, toasted ou fried whether for good or ugly performance. The remaining question is : Can someone rejecting any artistic motive for some act be considered as a performance artist ?
I think something like that would be a cool art project. However, I can't see the allure of, y'know, *injuring* (or killing) people for art's sake.
Me versus modern artists: one of us needs to revise his view of what it means to be artistic. Unfortunately, it's probably me.
If someone creates something, and someone else out there wants to view it / hear it / experience it, then it's art as far as I'm concerned. The real debate is whether it's good art and bad art. Personally I'd regard the boxes more as culture-jamming.
Is it art if it's not expressing anything new or making people think? Is a portrait of a businessman or politician art? Is a Ken Done bedsheet pattern art? What about a Destiny's Child song?
Art has to say something new, IMHO. Anything else is decoration or marketing.
"That letter's not an 'anthrax hoax', officer - it's mail art!"