“Living” bio art: Not for long. What’s the life expectancy of sperm and blood cells mixed with feces at room temp?

Because after decades of this sort of thing, only your fellow hipsters are paying even the slightest attention to “art”.

You want to get the bourgeois angry, you need to get a grant of some kind so that they’ll be paying for the shit.

There are easier and more effective ways to get human genes into bacteria than with a gene gun, though. I guess that wouldn’t be called “art,” though, just “molecular biology.”

You couldn’t have put the photo below the cut?

Damn.

But if it’s a performance piece, that’s great, I’m all about it.

How about we take these artists, force them to frolic and play naked in their “art”, then bottle their tears and use them to mix a dye that we then use to paint bigoted epithets on basketballs made from human skin, then we have an exhibition game using the basketballs with teams composed entirely of child rapists culled from maximum security prisons. Wow, I can be an artist too!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_shit

My guess is that “artists” such as Allard and Zaretsky are motivated by the lack of pushback.

When Cezanne was rejected by the Paris Salon, when Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was booed at its premiere, it provided emotional reinforcement to the idea that I’m Doing Something Totally New And Different.

That doesn’t seem to work any more. No matter how weird the latest concept of “art” gets, the hipsters all applaud, or at least accept.

Which is not the reaction the “artist” wants….

Also, yes, your statement does display that you are likely above average in creativity, and that you get exactly what is meant: You can be an artist, too!

Sadly, I think the poop itself is more interesting than the joking fake biology project the artists are enacting. I wish that the artists wouldn’t follow through on this idea.

Yeah, they actually did successfully polish a turd.

On the other hand, if this project is really supposed to have any serious connection to Burroughs, then the obvious thing to do with any substance that came out of his body would be to roll it into a spliff and smoke it.
His DNA was probably the least interesting thing about his body chemistry.