Artist gives birth to vaginal painting

[marions ghost]

104. Your assumption

that 100 bystanders would have any sort of consensus is false. So there is no point to be made about a random "majority" defining it as art. 100 people MIGHT theoretically speaking--get jollies on her being rudely knocked off--but that doesn't make it art.

The fact is --artists, curators, organizers, academics--these groups would call it art. (It's not my favorite thing--I'm kinda squeemish about body art-- but I don't deny that it's art). For ex, championship wrestling?--I don't like, but I can see it as an art form. Boxing is a form of body expression that ends up in injury often (football too for that matter) and I don't like it but it is an art. It is a ritualized form of assault kept within boundaries --that rises to an art form. Now if you think --for example that S&M rises to an art form, that's up to you. Many would not get that. I think we can all agree that non-consensual violence is NOT an art form. Which kicking out the scaffolding would be, if she did not give permission.

Unless the art performance is voted on by the bystanders to decide whether it is presented or not, art is presented without your or my prior approval sometimes. MANY things that disturb me hit my eyeballs everyday without my approval. But I ignore or move on. Or if it's important enough, I'll respond.

Art definitely does NOT encompass the entirety of human behavior. It has specific meanings in context, and definite boundaries.

Hope that helps. If not, say so. Discussion and interpretation is integral to art.