I have an obsession with Jonathan Meese.  He’s either the worst art huckster that has ever lived, or a misplaced, possibly time traveling, shaman, taking the only post-primitivism job for primitives - contemporary artist.  I saw him speak at the artists talk for the most recent SITE Santa Fe Biennial and pretty much the only thing he said or needed to say, in a voice distinctly resonant of Herzog, was “I do what the art tells me to do.”

The above is a video piece titled Ezra Pound.  It’s relentlessly catchy, more of a music video than anything else - performance art for the short-attention-span generation.  I can’t stop watching it.  When I Googled to find out more about it, I found this Art or Idiocy? post, also highlighting the video, where the author asserts that that this video is “all finale, start to finish”, something that I very much agree with.

Technorati Tags: , , , , , ,