Blurring the Boundaries Between Art and Life

Welcome to the pixelated performance art gallery of Julian Priest. Wander the halls if you wish. Should you need anything and I am unavailable, please feel free to call upon Drew and she will assist you -- just follow the yellow line down the hall to plead your case -- and one of us will be with you shortly.

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Do you also do RP?

Only with my best friend privately.

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(x) some creatures I’ve been drawing 

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"Pan y Rosas!" (Máximo Gonzáles, 2010 - Mexico/Argentina)

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The mummified heart is said to be that of vampire Auguste Delagrance, responsible for the deaths of more than forty people back in the 1900, a period of vampirism in the USA. When he was identified, Delagrance was hunted down by a Romano Catholic priest and a Voodoo Hougan, and was destroyed in 1912. (x)

This is fucking Rad

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This strikes something within me

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Halloween Masquerade Masks FX Makeup from Sandra Holmbom here. For more of Sandra Holmbom’s amazing FX and every day makeup go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/psychosandra  

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This is next level

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Art by StilleNacht

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Dear Mr. Priest, I love you. To pieces.

Thank you.

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Melt by *straechav

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Lay back and relax (by odin’s_raven)

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Marina Abramović, “Rhythm 0,” 1974

Marina Abramović is best known for her performance pieces, in which she tries to explore what is possible for an artist to do in the name of art.  Her best known piece was the recent “The Artist Is Present,” in which she sat motionless for 736.5 hours over the course of three months, inviting visitors to sit opposite her and make eye contact for as long as they wanted.  So many people began spontaneously crying across from her that blogs and Facebook groups were set up for those people.  

Her bravest piece, however, is my favorite.  This piece was primarily a trust exercise, in which she told viewers she would not move for six hours no matter what they did to her.  She placed 72 objects one could use in pleasing or destructive ways, ranging from flowers and a feather boa to a knife and a loaded pistol, on a table near her and invited the viewers to use them on her however they wanted. 

Initially, Abramović said, viewers were peaceful and timid, but it escalated to violence quickly.  “The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated: they cut my clothes, stuck rose thorns in my stomach, one person aimed the gun at my head, and another took it away. It created an aggressive atmosphere. After exactly 6 hours, as planned, I stood up and started walking toward the public. Everyone ran away, escaping an actual confrontation.”

This piece revealed something terrible about humanity, similar to what Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment or Stanley Milgram’s Obedience Experiment, both of which also proved how readily people will harm one another under unusual circumstances. 

This performance showed just how easy it is to dehumanize a person who doesn’t fight back, and is particularly powerful because it defies what we think we know about ourselves.  I’m certain the no one reading this believes the people around him/her capable of doing such things to another human being, but this performance proves otherwise.   

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Every time I read about this piece I cry.

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This is my kind of fashion (horror) show. The Blonds Fall 2013

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OMG HOLY SHIT THIS IS PERFECTION. dead.

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The wigs are such a perfect touch, the Hitchcock blonde.

and the raincoat makes me think of the shower curtain in Psycho (was that the intent?)

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