Shitshow, a performance.
EXHIBITION PROPOSAL/GALLERY WANTED. Contact via tungotal@gmail.com
Name: Shitshow
Location: Sweden
Type of Art: Sociopolitical physical performance art.
Background: This exhibition will feature a piece by Huijserius as the first public installment of a new form of art; a Glass Bead Game.
Herman Hesse's final novel, "The Glass Bead Game," describes an intellectual utopia set in the fictional European province of Castalia. A monastic order separate from the state; a future Uppsala where the university and knowledge are central, but a 'game,' over time developed into a profound intellectual exercise and synthesis of all arts and sciences, is considered the highest form of art.
The book, published in 1943, can be read on your own and is a beautiful work, but the game, the pinnacle of Castalia, the intellectuals' Walpurgis Night and the highest expression of an individual's knowledge, wisdom, and style, is described as a synthesis of all human learning, an abstract and complex activity combining various subjects and fields of knowledge, including mathematics, music, philosophy, and art. It also plays on the ability to see connections and patterns between different areas of knowledge.
Since the novel does not provide explicit rules or a definitive point system, the specific criteria for assessing the game are left to the reader's imagination. A Game with genuine artistic intent has not yet been performed.
A game combines elements of music, mathematics, philosophy, and other disciplines. The game involves creating connections and relationships between different areas of knowledge, symbolically represented by glass beads. Players leverage their individual expertise in various subjects to create meaningful patterns and connections within the game.
The game is judged or evaluated based on the originality, depth, and beauty of the connections made by the players. It can be played individually or as a competition between different players or groups. The point is not to stick to a single subject or discipline, but to use a theme to build a symphony of connections and meaning.
I see a social and artistic need for, and an opportunity to use a form of the Game according to each person's needs and abilities, children as well as adults, intellectuals as well as everyone else, and therefore intend to present my own, of which Shitshow is the first performance.
Show:
The theme of this performance is cognitive dissonance and frustration.
The artist as whore and vessel, in this case, the artist and his physical body being used and sold in the form of a triptych priced at 3.1 million dollars, one dollar signifying every one of the approximately 3.1 children who will die of starvation.
We now buy feces from the privileged.
And distill this into pill form for the poor.
It turns out that the poor and the starving also get far LESS nutrition out of the same apple your well-fed ass may eat!
Because a rich and varied diet equals a rich and varied bacterial flora in the bowels and this richness of feces means that a starving kid also is able to get far less nutrition out of the same food!
The scale itself is focused on a single room and performance that will be filmed in real life, and after the initial performance, this video performance will be shown in the same room for the duration of the show.
Physically, this performance requires no more than a sofa and desk that resemble those as seen in the “Castingcouch”, porno movies.No more than one room is needed.
A cinema red rope keeps the audience a good bit away.
The performer bending over a table, holding a small camcorder precisely like the girls so used on that couch. Dressed in an operating gown and an assistant, a nurse, masked for anonymity, puts that operating paper over the artist back, leaving a round and fluffy pretty bum.
The artist, with a terrible diet of coffee and dreams and living on the poverty minimum, uses his own body and social position to draw attention to the fact that 3.1 million children are at risk of starving to death. Yearly.
And we market and patent pills off our own shit.
The exhibition's direct aim is, through extremely visceral physical performance combined with simple education, to point out unbelievable dissonance.
It presents the artist as a whore.
The filmed performance will only be published on YouPorn.
This is explained. Maybe by an unseen narrator.
The artist is given a camera and told roughly to film his own face holding a handycam.
A medical doctor (anonymously dressed like a doctor) walks in with a large Clysma syringe filled with the ethically sourced shit of my richest friend.
Both, in preparation for the performance, letting our blood values be tested, and, if economically viable, bowel-flora, as well as the donor being checked for STDs etc.
These medical documents are presented on small museum-like signs.
The doctor tells the artist rudely to lie still and film as he roughly inserts the rich flora into the artists behind.
-A portrait picture from the filmed moment of penetration will be the center portrait. The side-pieces undecided but taken during performance.
The friend comes in (anonymous mask) and both eat an apple. The artist thanking profusely.
A protest. A sneer.
Filmed in the exact same way as a ‘casting couch porn.’
To also openly troll those looking for another malnourished in other capital. Another broke girl whose daddy died young.
Potentially I would ask Lillith, a brilliant Swedish artist known as ‘the happy hooker’ to guest-visit as donator or even sent me a stool sample and record herself chumping happy apple via zoom.
Feel free to get in touch. Tungotal@gmail.com