#also hey op if you haven't muted this post yet let me be very clear that I have nothing against you

[shapelytimber]

Hey...... I'm technically an art blog, and I studied art and design for a long ass time (even if I studied applied art, I still had a lot of history and theory). So instead of wallowing, let's do something about it by sharing "weird", either unsettling thought provoking easily dismissed by the general public or just not white american centric art :) and many other kinds of art pieces that can fall in the very large and nebulous definition of "weird". Because what is weird here ?? Against who are you mad op ? Weird in the sense of gore/disgusting ? Horny ? Underground ? Queer ? Hard to understand ? Not aligned with christian or white sensibilities ? Transgressing taboos ? And challenging in what sense ?? Politically ? Culturally ? Intellectually ? Aren't we mad at a strawman here ? Weird means nothing. And you can't even ask random people for a definition, because everyone has a different answer. If you ask my boring kinda anti vax and very much far right voter sister for what is weird, you'll find out that pretty much everything is.

Anyway this whole thing is just an excuse to share "weird" art so let's ! (And it's mostly contemporary art- because I am merely human and I do have favorites)

Pissed, made by Cassils in 2017

Cassils is a transgender artist from Quebec that uses their body as a material and main actor of their art. Pissed was a performance, a sculpture, photography and sound project. For 200 days, the artist collected their urine in orange containers, and for the final one they stand before an audience to share the everyday act of drinking and pissing. Then they exposed the sculpture, a cube of 200 gallons of urine. The goal of the project was to protest the 2016 trump election and more specifically the rollback of the american law that allowed transgender students to use the bathroom matching their gender.

“It seems insane that I have to make a cube of piss for people to get this idea. I shouldn’t have to make this. I shouldn’t have to hold my own urine. It’s crazy that we have to go to these extremes but this is the culture that we’re living in.” -Cassils

Link to their website if you want to read more

An Oak Tree, created by Michel Craig-Martin in 1973

Part of the conceptual art movement (that prioritize the idea, mental process and concept of a piece, while rejecting aesthetics), it's a glass of water on a shelf, and an interview of the artist, by the artist, to explain why the glass of water on the shelf is an oak tree. It's the same idea of the act of the artist transforming mundane objects that duchamp and his ready made already demonstrated. It's a very well known art piece of the movement, and the epitome of the plague on contemporary art : "but *I* could have done that >:(" or the extra condescending "my *kid* could have made that !". Well you didn't. And you wished you could be as funny as Michel Craig-Martin interviewing himself.

"Que le cheval vive en moi" (may the horse live in me), by Marion Laval-jeantnet performed the 22/02/2011.

Bioart my beloved ! For this performance, french artist Marion Laval-jeantnet had her partner Benoit Mangin inject her with horse blood, in front of a croud in the Kapelica Gallery in Slovenia, in the goal of altering her perception and symbolically become closer to the horse (become a sort of centaur). She then put on prosthetic horse legs and tried to communicate with a horse.

English article that talks about it if you want to read more

Link to the video of the performance (cw blood, needled, tits and a horse)

Let's finish by talking about movies ! Even tho that's not the domain I studied in, I'm still very interested in it (and if I continue talking about bioart I'll have to talk about the guy who grafted an ear on his forearm), tho this is mainly just recommendations of short films I love- won't be able to go into much depth

La jetée, directed by Chris Marker, 1962 (28 minutes)

Link to watch it (with english subs)

Taking the "weird" definition very generously here- but well ig any french sci fi movie of the 60s would feel weird to americans either way- and it *is* weird in it's presentation and questioning of the film form... and it's my post so if I want to talk about my favorite short film I very much can ! It's a reference of the genre, it's very acclaimed and it's made by a man that my friend want to force fem so bad (they want to time travel to the 60s, then madame Bovary Chris Marker with estrogens because and I quote "that would have fixed him") ...Also he played second life extensively idk where else to tell you that

There will come soft rains (Будет ласковый дождь), directed by Nazim Tulakhodzhayev, 1984 (10 minutes)

Link to watch it (with english subs)

A short animated movie based on a short story, based on a poem who was published during the height of the cold war. It's incredible !

Science Friction, directed by Stan Vanderbeek, 1959 (10 minutes)

Link to whatch it (no need for subs)

A second animated short film about the cold war has hit the post. Just watch it it's 10 minutes long jkljknjk and the letterboxd page can tell you a lot more than me-

But please to respect the vision and will of the artist you must watch it here.....

in the movie dome, projected on every wall of course.

Anyway I'll stop there this is already too long and I have way to much open tabs this is stressing me out xoxo

PS : I may have become lost in the sauce at one point idk

“we need more weird art!” but not anything that makes me feel uncomfortable or alienated or challenged. “weird art” but i don’t want to consider the perspective of anyone i might have real irrevocable differences from. “weird art” but everything must be carefully couched in the language of white middle-class american sensibilities at all times. “weird art” but it has to be picked from a list of pre-established “weird” tropes that i recognize from carefully curated lists on letterboxd.