All In The Name Of Art???
Filed under: Wacky, Tacky & True
We think we know where Abortion Girl found her inspiration!
Back in 2000, Jonathan Yegge (above) was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute who did a public performance art piece that got the whole school, the local community and the entire worldwide internet talking.
Let's revisit his little "performance piece," shall we?
Yegge asked for a volunteer from his art class, got one, and then had voluntarily sign a makeshift contract stating that the volunteer was agreeing to participate in a performance piece containing acts "including and up to a sexual or violent nature."
Yegge led the volunteer out into a campus public area and then, let him explain in his words what he did.
"He was tied up. He had a blindfold and a gag, but he could see and talk through it. He had freedom of movement of his pelvis. I engaged in oral sex with him and he engaged in oral sex with me. I had given him an enema, and I had taken a shit and stuffed it in his ass. That goes on, he shits all over me, I shit in him. There was a security guard present. There was an instructor from the school present. It was videoed, and the piece was over."
College kids are so damn crazy!
Naturally, a lot of shit went down after this shit incident.
Click here for a great article discussing the after-effects of Yegge's very controversial performance piece.
Wonder what's happened to him since this all went down back in the day????
Update: Here is his MySpace page!
Could imagine being a student just randomly passing by and seeing this?
This is downright disgusting and its not art. I believe that what people do in their own time is their own business. This is just porn…our kids cant draw pictures of santa claus in elementary school anymore but in college we can have multiple abortions and sex containing feces and its ART?!?!?!?! Fuck that…its gross and wrong…
AGAIN….
Something only STUPID FUCKING WHITE PEOPLE DO!
You guys are always on here talking shyt about black people and yet you have nothing to say about your WHITE people doing stupid shit like this.
UNBELIEVABLE!
So basically, all he did was make a PORNO! I hope the art instructor gave him an F for fucking lame.
Perez, this story was from 8 yrs ago!!!
This article is from 2000- it is not recent
No wonder this country is going down on every level possible, socially, politically and more.
The world is laughing @ us.
The BEST COSTUME EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! Yegge is a fucking HACK compared to her!!!! SFAI is the shittiest art school in the country (yes, even Academy of Art is better!).
Listen, this dude is a fucking mess and deserves to get the shit KICKED out of him. I am so sick and tired of these yuppy fucks getting their way with everything and anything. Second of all, for all of you gay bashers hating on Perez, quit wasting your fucking time. You obviously have some pent up sexual issues. Perez, do you boo, do you.
DID HE GET AN A+ FOR THE PROJECT?
WHAT WERE THE TEACHER'S COMMENTS?
Re: Levi – Levis pretty damn funny. and yes LSD a must
shock value. that's the only reason. that's not art. There is nothing "creative" or "beautiful" about that. No wonder our country is in decline, when we have people who do stuff like this. I don't care how religious or anti religious you are, or what God you do or don't believe in, but the minute we started taking religion and morals out of schools (I'm not saying we all should be Catholic or Lutheran or Baptist, I'm saying we should all be taught to respect one anothers religions) this country has just continued on a downhill slope. It's sickening what the children and adults are doing today.
that is not art…it is fetishism…sick and twisted
first of all
why would the campus and class just watch and not do anything
why would the volunteer be mad when he let him to do this to him and did it back
he should be pissed at himself for going along with it
he read the contract
thats when he could of backed out of it
the both of them should be penalized and the staff watching it should
I was waiting for "The Aristocrats" but it never happened
myspace is 1064605
You know, I'm a pretty open-minded person….but I think what happens in the bedroom - (at least normally) should stay in the bedroom. Is that too much to ask? Really, its not up for anyone to decide or interpret what makes art and what doesnt but…for real, thats some nasty shit.
Um…don't you think this one should have been filed under "If you are easily offended???" The mental image of this sick shit is not something I want in my brain. Sick fucktards!
How can people be getting away with this? What's next, murdering someone in publlic is now just going to be considered art? It's insane. If a random person had walked up to the campus and "performed" something like that, he'd be sitting in jail! This place is becoming such a shady world to live in.
I've seen some weird ass modern art exhibits, but this SHIT takes the cake.
I bet his parents are soooo proud.
It doesn't matter what this person's race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is. He has deep fucking problems.
This is not art, this is sick.
When this guy goes on a murder spree, because we all know he will, God help the people that know him, that could have had him committed.. or at least helped.
Didn't Jeffery Dahmer start with killing his pets?
HIS PARENTS MUST BE SO FREAKIN PROUD!!
He is also a scientologist! YIKES!!!
OMG, people who do this kind of thing, including that stupid abortion art bitch should be shipped off so an island and left their so they can do all their freaky crap and we don't have to hear or think about it! These stories are scarring my mind, I'm gonna have trouble sleeping tonight >.
You know what, the volunteer has noone to blame but himself. He signed himself up for it. Maybe Yegge was just trying to see how far he could go. Did the guy protest at all? The article doesn't say, it says he was gagged but had the ability to talk throughout the exibit. I'm interested to know whether he was offered money to be a part of the project or not.
And for those of you who are wondering whether his parents paid for his education, he had a scholarship.
Re: alice – WHAT?????? now that is just sick! This man should be charged with animal cruelty. This is way worse than doing some stupid gay porn or simulating miscariages for art. This man is actuly killing a living thing. It's sad what people will let someone do because they call it art.
Can we get a "if you don't want to be offended then don't click here" on these things? This is pretty awful. Also, can someone explain to me how this stuff qualifies as art?
People like this need to be put into an asylum!
Ah, those crazy college kids. However this post does bring up a valid point. What exactly constitutes art, and why is public money being used to fund such art? If I knew my taxpaying money was going toward a "piece of shit" so to speak, I'd not be happy. Then again, maybe I don't know what art is. Maybe that sort of sexual performance is art? I guess that is the whole "freedom of speech" crap (literally!) that we all talk about, and hey if that's what Jonathan Yegge believes is art, he must have been able to persuade people to think it was otherwise he'd not have been able to do that sort of stuff out in public with a faculty member observing!
Fucking weirdos, thats disgusting. That guy is an idiot for going through with that, and that girl is a fucking nut case.
AGAIN, just like crazy girl, NOT art - just extremely bad porn.
THIS IS THE MOST DISTURBING THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the FUCK is this even considered art! This is beyond disturbing! SICK!
he lists his religion as scientology—ENOUGH SAID…
Enough of this shit Perez! You should have listed this under If Your Easily Offended! The abortion chick was bad enough,know this? This and the jack off guys its tooo much. I love this site and news is good to include but its kinda starting to scare me. Its good to be scared and we live in a scary world but just warn me ok!
how is that like the girl?
Look up in his name on myspace hes a loser now that works at a paint company and moved out of the country
That's it. I am never letting my kids go to college
who takes a poo and shoves it in another butt? how does one even think of that kind of thing. yuckness!
And this amazing artist, according to his own MySpace page, now works in a paint can factory in Belgium. Wow. That's famous. Or — does he? Is this just another piece of Dadaesque performance art? The real question is — Who the hell really cares?
Whatever happened to using good ol' oil paint and canvas?
Seriously, that is NOT art. That is beyond disgusting.
Another scientologist making the world a better place!!
Re: Harmin – Only in America? Have you not seen the 2girls1cup, series? They def. weren't from America, baby
Hey Perez, you need to brush up on your knowledge of performance art. Artists have been doing crazy stunts in the name of art for decades now. I suggest you read up on Chris Burden–he's one of the legends in this field.
wooowwwwwwww…why do people do this kinda stuff? how is that considered art? sigh…craziness in the world.
How many times do we need to tell these pretentious kids that
PORNOGRAPHY DOESN"T EQUAL ART!
They have too much time and money and are self-centered.
At least Perez is highlighting worthwhile causes on this site….just imagine if these spoiled art kids actuallly brought attention to issues that would actually HELP OTHER PEOPLE!
Perez, I know you are an animal lover (like me) so I thought you might want to get involved with stopping a horrible "art" installation piece. Guillermo Vargas Habacuc ties up street dogs in an art gallery and lets them starve to death. I like this new idea of using your powers for good and thought this might be something that would interest you.
THE ORIGINAL TWO GIRLS, ONE CUP!
amirite?
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THIS IS MUCH more DISGUSTING than what the female artist did!
He humiliated someone else.. in several ways
Perez, please stop the boring shit. We come here to be entertained not to read crap like what this guy writes. Get away from this type of news, it is BORING!!
thats why he only has 41 friends, because myspace is not essay space, and he is crazy he might as well sue the 2 girls 1 cup people for jackin his idea! LOL
That's disgusting. Another lazy person looking for instant attention.
this freak has reproduced. Poor kid!!!! Protective services should maybe "check" this freak out
2dicks1cup……holla
Weird, I go to the Atlanta Art Institute…I don't think shit like that would fly there.
What ever happened to doing a nice painting or putting together a photography exhibit? How about a sculpture? Do these retards just not have the talent and skill for that? My god I ALMOST FAINTED FROM READING THAT POST AND THE ARTICLE LINKED WITH IT. Is this stunt and the abortion thing just for publicity or what? How could this be really happening? How did these idiots even get into these schools??????
While I don't want to be ethnocentric and imposing, I've yet to see some purpose of this project.
I'm not sure if he has some sort of perverse pleasure in doing this, if he does, he should keep it to himself as it's completely disrespectful and immature.
If this institute really considers this as art, there is an abundance of websites featuring this type of "torturous pornography", it doesn't take a college student to do this.
15 minutes of shame.
Thats totally fucked up…. To the dickheads who can't read, Perez acknowledges it's from 2000, he's comparing it to abortion girl, so even though it's old news, it's relevent in this context. Comprende clueless wonders??????
he's a scientologist. explains it all
WHY aren't these people arrested for public obscenity???
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WHY aren't these people expelled from their schools for obscenity???
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THIS WORK IS NOT ART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
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Now I'd be ok if the performance piece included bitch-slapping the artists for their destructive contributions
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Call the piece "SOCIETY CAN EXPECT OR EXPEL"
I am getting tired of people like this taking the word "art" to such extremes…
This guy is one of those pseudo-intellectual douches who thinks he's smarter than everyone else because he reads Nietzsche (or pretends to, while wearing a black turtleneck and sitting pensively underneath a tree.) He's so predictable — hates Bush, anti-establishment, fancies himself a philosopher, eschews pop culture, thinks he's a latent genius. What a jagoff.
What's the big deal? This sounds like a typical date for someone like you Perez. Get the fuck over it……
oh my god, he has kids?
Who in the heck has time to read that crap?
Re: cassie – LMFAO
Re: alice – Jesus Christ. Starving a dog? Someone should starve him to death and call that art. Sick fucking world we live in. Which is why I am not having kids.
sounds kind of hot…
PIGS ALL OF THEM!!
Just like this asshole:
In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took
a dog from the street,
tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved
him to death.
http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd88/Fat_tire7/?action=view¤t=perro-habacuc-2.jpg
Scat as "art"? Oh my freaking GOD! What a fucking sick asshole, trying to pass off his fetish as "art". Isn't what he did some kind of criminal act, that is, coercing a dumb volunteer into sucking his dick and playing his shit games by trying to legitimize it as an "art project"? God, what will be next? Art projects involving torture and rape? What a sick world we live in.
HEY PEREZ! YEGGE IS CURRENTLY A - GET THIS - THEOLOGY TEACHER AT FORDHAM UNIVERSITY LINCOLN CENTER IN NYC. I HAD HIM LAST SEMESTER.
Sound like the innovator of 2 girls 1 cup. Damn him. Also, his myspace "about me section" is some pathetic pompous college essay about "oh I'm better than you see how different and radical my views are about everything". It sucks.
This "artist" is now a divorced, paint can factory line worker, scientologist. Apparently his "art" wasn't a big hit.
how do you find this stuff? rancid.
ok seriously, shut the fuck up about college art, you dont get it and you never will. You bring up a couple of questionable examples and it gives us all a bad name, SHUT THE FUCK UP you didn't even go to college, you dumb shit!!@!@!
Nice PLAGIARISM of the SF Chronicle piece, Perez.
when i first heard this i kind of thought that was just a legend that they told to new students.. like the dude who died from hanging himself on campus as part of a performance.
i cant really tell if the comments people leave here are depressing or totally hilarious, so i guess i'll go with the second one.
you are such a parasite, the abortion art report got huge attention on your site, so now you go on a artist witch hunt? STOP IT. Performance art is a critical medium in comtemporary art. You cant comment on two questionalble pieces and think you have a grasp on what every artist is doing. You are being completely biased without knowing ANYTHING about modern art. You are so low, media scum. Ignorant blood sucker.
thats u fucked up americans lol god bless
I hate these types of art students… art students seem to be the dumbest people. First of all. This sex shit is not art… it's just sex… sex is not an art it's a fucking activity… wow someone shoved shit in my ass… it's not creative. I don't have a problem with people doing this… it just should not be labeled art… it's just sexuality. Where the fuck are the people with talent that actually MAKE art? They don't get jack shit because these fucking tards calling themselves 'artists' are making up a huge media storm about shit that's not even art.
He is boring. Abortion girl is boring. There is nothing more boring than pretentious undergraduate art students. They pretend to embrace negation, they pretend to push the limits, they pretend to "make statements" and urge people to participate in their ideas of "discourse."
And their mommies and daddies pay their tuition.
Art is working in McDonald's. Art is a cement truck driver, a fire engine roaring by, frost on a window that looks just like Jesus. Life, boys and girls, is art.
These two know nothing about art.
Perez, why are you so obsessed with poop you disgusting pig?
fuckin disgusting. not art AT ALL. and all you dumb fucks stop talking shit on perez and learn to fucking read cuz um im pretty sure he says "back in 2000"! he was just comparing this wierdo to a more recent fuckin wierdo.
DAMN! THAT'S SOME NASTY SHIZ.
Lemme guess–the name of this "artwork" is…
THE PRODUCERS!
GOD HE HAD TO BE FROM THE I.E.!!!!
Wow. This is is just as disgusting as the abortion thing. What the fuck is wrong with people?
Lists himself as a $cientologist on his myspace.
Can't say im suprised. Blame it on the thetans!
this guy is boring…abortion girl is boring and retrogade.
check out john duncan. google his works 'blind date' and 'for women only' from all the way back in the 70's. they were and still are authentically courageous, thought provoking and groundbreaking. he paid a heavy price for this work. when you have the editor of a magazine like 'art in america' refusing to review your work, you know you are doing something right.
wtf?????? these ppl need to be locked up in a psych ward. how funny ppl like them use the term "art" to describe psychotic/freaky crap. what's next? murder=art???? abuse=art??? god, ppl are soooo weird!!!!!!
Re: Megan – megan…you are an idiot. this piece has been well covered as not quite being how you described. in fact your mock outrage (when was the last time you took in and fed a dirty diseased street dog? ) and insistence on spreading disinformation prove the artists point about hypocrisy and selective compassion. do your research.
How is that art? It's not creative. It's freakin' disgusting. Art students should undergo psychological tests before being admitted to school. In lieu of creativity there is sexuality. Nasty-ass FREAK!
What isup with everyone being scattological? Poop is for flushing
I HAD HIM TOO AT LINCOLN CENTER!!! HE SERIOUSLY ROCKS!!! WAY CRAZY WAY TO LOOK AT ART AND RELIGION!!!! I GIVE HIM TWO THUMBS UP—HAHA.
sounds like he took his project right off the pages of Marquis de Sade's writings…old school!
Figures that it'd take some queer to think that one up.
holy crap, his about me is a freakin' novel. this is some sick shit.
nasty. why the hell weren't they arrested for public indecency/public lewdness? his volunteer has no right to get pissy about it after the fact, the creep signed up for it.
does anyone else find it odd that, when perez bold-faced the shocking/unnatural acts, he also put the oral sex bit in bold? does that mean he finds it shocking/unnatural, or is he just being a pervert because he likes man-on-man action?
by the way perez, do you ever read over your posts before you send them out for the world to see? you spell things wrong, your punctuation is incorrect, and you sometimes leave entire words out. in this post you typed: and then had voluntarily sign … HIM is missing.
Re: sarah –
Yeah, and Aliza Svartsis also his 2nd top friend…. Her page says she is a fashion designer, so why all the "Performance Art"? Which by the way, she doesn't mention at all.
This is really making me want to throw up. I can't believe people do these kinds of things. It gives the message that if you say it's "art" that you can do whatever you want. I can't even describe the awful feeling I have in the pit of my stomach right now.