Flickr teases you with random recent uploads on their front page when you pop in. Sometimes they’re worth looking at. Seeing the above image in Wetsailor_2000′s stream, I initially thought I was looking at the documentation of some kind of performance, photographic or video art, but taking a look at his profile, it’s obviously fetish. Regardless, I thought his recent and brief entry to Flickr (his earliest photo went online Saturday), consisting thus far soley of self-portraits in sailor/police costume in a large, inflatable, indoor tub of water, merits some kind of elevation to found art. Is any sufficiently out of the ordinary and repetitive behavior conceptual art or appropriatable as conceptual art at this point?
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It’s interesting. I don’t know how else to describe it. It makes you think, so I suppose tha qualifies it as art, regardless of the original intent.
He shut down a huge chunk of his photostream. A real shame. Seen in repetition, this body of images could easily trick or fool a naive contemporary curator into exhibition.
Ah, that would explain why there was so little when I went and looked.
Yeah, that’s the danger of posting in the middle of some total stranger’s upload. You never know what’s gonna happen after he gets to the edit. A surprising number of folks who upload naughty material to Flickr don’t know how to set the images to private, before they upload, and instead do it after. So let’s just say that there can be some interesting stuff on the front page on occasion.
I really like Wetsailor’s images in repetition. Seen together, it’s totally a body of work.