Swiss comedian and experimental artist, Ursus Wehrl, in his “Tidying Up Art” series, reorganizes famous paintings, stacking up their elements by size, color or form, or by otherwise sorting out the unbearable mess of modern art.
He tries to make us believe he is doing the original artists a favor by organizing them. His TEDx talk video is funny and excruciating.
Atlanta-based artist Shana Robbins' costumed and choreographed rituals of passage create her odd and evocative vision of theatre.
From the exhibition page:
[Her] works address conditions of feminine power, natural phenomena, and cycles of life and death. Using a variety of media, she presents herself as a solitary and galvanizing figure, elaborately costumed and performing ritualized gestures in unique landscapes. Drawing on her own experiences as model and student of Butoh movement, and on numerous mythologies that link womanhood with the Earth and roles of conduit and healer, Robbins creates composite narratives of identity and transformation.
Shana Robbins - Atlanta, Georgia Video Clip #1, Part A A performance installation representing a hybridization of American military camouflage, an Islamic Burqa, a tree, and a "stripper" or courtesan in a ritualistic and sexually charged interaction with a dying, decrepit tree.
