Artist who lay in grave with vial of blood dripping from anus wins award.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/03/canada/art_awards040303

OTTAWA - A performance artist who once lay naked in a shallow grave with a vial of his own blood dribbling out of his anus is among seven winners of one of Canada's most prestigious visual arts awards this year.

Described by the jury for the 2004 Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts as a "no-holds-barred, neo-Dada" artist, Toronto-based Istvan Kantor is being honoured for his entire body of work, which blends music, kinetic sculpture, multimedia installations and, most famously, performance art.

In the early 1980s, Kantor began a series he eventually entitled his Blood Campaign.

In the first instalment, Restriction 1, he suspended himself naked, filled his mouth with his own blood and assumed the lotus position. In Liaison Inter-Urbain he dug a shallow grave, inserted a vial of blood into his anus and contorted himself so that the blood flowed into his mouth.

[afraid_of_the_dark]

1. ew...

:puke:

[dolo amber]

2. I am so happy

this is actually an article...I thought you'd finally cracked. :D

[Screaming Lord Byron]

3. The headline is the greatest headline ever.

I never thought I'd live to see that particular conjunction of words.

[libview]

4. That's fuckin discusting!!

[mac56]

5. His mom and dad must be so proud.

Art college was money well spent.

[PVnRT]

6. Someone explain to me how that is art

Is he impersonating the victim of male-on-male rape? What?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

7. Ah, the old Art or Mental Illness debate. Such a fine line.

[bubblesby2002]

8. You could lump this in with the meat dress, that painting,

the one about fire or something that the National Gallery paid a few million for and it's three stripes of different colours, or the artist who hung dead rabbits on fences, or the artist who got the grant from Manitoba to make jewellery out of her pubes and toenails. Man we appreciate art here in Canada don't we?:shrug:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Yes. Yes we do.

Still, Damien Hirst is English at least. Thank God for that!

[PVnRT]

11. Kind of like Pink Floyd

No, wait, that's the debate between art and shit.

[underpants]

10. NOW THAT'S A WINNER!!!!!!!!!!

:thumbsup:

[underpants]

17. Haircut on lay-a-way. Two more payments and it is all his

[greendog]

12. Hey, why not?

Look what passes for news.

Look what passes for entertainment.

Look what passes for justice.

Look what passes for democracy.

...and we expect our art to be beautiful?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

13. Well then, what kind of art is this?

[greendog]

19. I don't think it's intended to make sense.....

...the article calls it "neo-Dada". The original "Dada" movement began as a reaction to the horrors of WW1 and the machine age.

An absurd world will generate absurd art.

[Robb]

14. "Dear Michelle...."

...Sorry I haven't written for so long, but I've been busy.

Remember when you broke up with me, and you said that I'd never get anywhere by dripping blood from my butt into my mouth? Well, I guess I had the last laugh.

Broodingly yours,

Istvan

p.s. - I'm making a sculpture of you out of spinach and my own feces.

[underpants]

15. Ah "success" is the sweetest revenge

LOL Robb that was funneeeeeee

[Screaming Lord Byron]

16. Michelle.

I hear you ran off with a man who pickled duck embryos and nailed them to a 12 foot wall of urine-drenched Bacon. He's an amateur. He can't love you like I can.

[SmileyBoy]

18. LOL!!!

Pickled duck embryos nailed to a 12-foot wall of urine-drenched bacon???

ROTFLMFAO!!!!

[bif]

20. That cold air must go to their heads up north, eh?

n/t

[everythingsxen]

21. I think I understand..

He was parodying South Park.

It was his own version of "Not without my anus". :evilgrin:

[Whitacre D_WI]

22. Dammit!

I thought I'd won something! x(

[Hammie]

23. This thread is worthless...

without pictures:evilgrin:

[Screaming Lord Byron]

24. Kick, for people enjoying breakfast.

[RandomKoolzip]

25. This man is a piker.

I've been bleeding from the anus for YEARS. Does anybody give ME awards? NO!

Alright, back to the grave...I gotta catch some ZZZzzz's.