Belgian artist Benjamin Verdonck sits in a swallow’s nest hanging 30 meters up on the glass wall of a building in Brussels, May 3, 2004. Verdonck was trying to hold conversations with passersby on the street below as part of a city arts festival.
Artist performs in nest hanging 30 meters high from office building
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i enjoy his Dr. Evil suit. it’s smashing.
It looks like he has a telephone inside his nest.
what a kooky guy. I don’t like how they are advertising this as art. I wish this Benjamin guy wouldn’t declare himself an artist. By immediately giving his performance the tag of “art”, people will dismiss it very easily. y’know… “oh he’s an artist”. “whatever”. I much more like the idea that he’s a kook do this to get a rise out of people. Not to be art. I think it would motivate more conversation that way. Art is very dismissive in our society.
yeah, to say he’s an “artist” is like whatever. But just some crazy dude–it’s like what? oh, that’s interesting. The difference between “what” and “whatever.” that’s a good blog post.
At best he’s an Actor [Actors are bananas, I should know”> … if he’s any type of [i”>Artist[/i”> he’s a “Performance Artist” … and nobody gets Performance Artist confused with Artist.