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17 Feb 2011, 12:16 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbNVaTwPXL4[/youtube]


A performance piece by Joe Coleman.


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17 Feb 2011, 1:01 pm

Who and what is Joe Coleman?

The face looks he could be in the spiritual ballpark of Ricky Gervais



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17 Feb 2011, 1:21 pm

Joe Coleman is an artist who occasionally does performance pieces.

http://randomindex.files.wordpress.com/ ... n-1996.jpg

^One of his paintings.


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17 Feb 2011, 1:45 pm

skafather84 wrote:
Joe Coleman is an artist who occasionally does performance pieces.

So then, is he making a statement in that video clip or just performing for purpose of entertainment?


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17 Feb 2011, 2:05 pm

leejosepho wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
Joe Coleman is an artist who occasionally does performance pieces.

So then, is he making a statement in that video clip or just performing for purpose of entertainment?


It's a statement about the perception of good and evil and the ideas of life and death. It's intended as starting a dialog about it but not many people who are on the opposite side would really see that.

Which is why I made sure to label it philosophy...because it's not a political statement; and that seems to be most of all that exists here...a P and an R but no P.


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17 Feb 2011, 2:09 pm

skafather84 wrote:
... political statement ... seems to be most of all that exists here...a P and an R but no P.

The first "P" and the "R" are reflective, yes?


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17 Feb 2011, 2:17 pm

leejosepho wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
... political statement ... seems to be most of all that exists here...a P and an R but no P.

The first "P" and the "R" are reflective, yes?


Politics and religion.


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17 Feb 2011, 2:57 pm

skafather84 wrote:
Joe Coleman is an artist who occasionally does performance pieces.

http://randomindex.files.wordpress.com/ ... n-1996.jpg

^One of his paintings.


Thank you - content a little strange - guess you had to be there. The style, though, is rather reminiscent of a woman in New York does symbolical quilts.



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17 Feb 2011, 3:00 pm

Philologos wrote:
skafather84 wrote:
Joe Coleman is an artist who occasionally does performance pieces.

http://randomindex.files.wordpress.com/ ... n-1996.jpg

^One of his paintings.


Thank you - content a little strange - guess you had to be there. The style, though, is rather reminiscent of a woman in New York does symbolical quilts.


There's something about it that reminds me of traditional day of the dead Mexican art.


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17 Feb 2011, 3:22 pm

That too, of course. Very like some I am seen - not that familiar so it did not leap out at me.