Performance Art Hurts Families: More pics from protest

Continued from this post.

Vital 5‘s Arbitrary Art Grant ($500) in the performance art category went to somebody who showed up to check it out.

From Dino Martini, gallery dealer on the scene:

Many, many people driving or walking by of course believed it was a “real” protest against performance art… In the end, a protester by the name of Garrett Hobba took the prize of $500 in $5 dollar bills. He showed up to see
what the situation was and ended up winning. (Vital 5’s) Greg (Lundgren) let his intern pick by using a rifles scope (minus the rifle) from across the street. Whoever she pointed
at first won.

Lundgren sent the images below. Only in an arbitrary world would Hobba, a musician, top these visual artists in their own game. No wonder they’re protesting. No justice, no peace. Click to enlarge.

Other performance art protests that were in the end, performance art, include Kelly Mark’s Demonstration in Toronto in 2003 (restaged in front of the Henry Gallery in 2006) and Anna Halprin’s Blank Placard Happening from 1968, restaged in Portland, Oregon, last year. In the photo immediately above, FlatChestedMama restages Halprin and Mark, proving that something can come from nothing.

Mark’s Web site here. Her version of pointlessly rousing the rabble came equipped with blank slogans:

What do we want… NOTHING!!!
When do we want it… NOW!!!”
Hell No…We Don’t Know.