| This was a performance art piece I did for an assignment with the objective of creating a spectacle. I did this in Pioneer Square in Portland, right across from the Nordstrom. I didn't get it all shaved off but since I only had a beard trimmer I think I got pretty far. EDIT 12/20/07: Wow I've had a lot of attention from this piece. I thought I would supply a bit more information since I've had a lot of questions come in about it. To clarify the project, this was an assignment for an alternative art class I was taking. It was the first in a series of performance projects we had to complete. I suspect the idea of creating a spectacle is the easiest and hardest thing to do for someone who is not a performer, which I am not. Because it was a test, I tried to think of the most uncomfortable thing I could do in public, and save for standing around naked, this was what I came up with. I think the idea of a spectacle as art is that even if it has no message, it breaks up the daily routines of other people. To paraphrase the artist David Eckard, the most exciting thing about performance art is thinking about what gets said at the dinner table by those who saw it. What people were saying... *The couple in black asked me if I was supporting a cause, and wanted to know what it was. When I told them there was no reason they said they would stand with me if I had. *The woman walking by at 2:58 complimented me on my skirt. *The young man who approaches me on the left asked me if I was ... |
