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I actually went to this. It was a Marina Abramovic retrospective. I think the naked bouncers were only posted in position every now and again, cos I definitely did not have to squeeze past them. And that guy in particular was must've swapped around in the exhibition cos when I saw him he was lying down on a table, face-up with his nob out.

Also, one of the exhibits had this old lady wearing white robes, doing a fast on some structure elevated above the crowd. She would only drink water for the whole run of the exhibition. Her entire living space was essentially cross sectioned, so that even her toilet was on display for all to see - and where she slept, and so on. She looked absolutely miserable but her eyes said 'dont worry, I'm on a spiritual/artistic journey'.

There was a quote from Abramovic (whose work this lady was replicating), about how on day 4 she went a bit loopy and felt like she could see everyone's energetic wavelengths or something.

Anyway, I thought the old lady could do with a morale boost so I smiled and waved at her, and gave a nod of 'respect, brah'. People were not pleased with that. I felt a sudden encirclement of dirty looks. Even my partner was a bit pissed off that I did it.

The experience introduced to me the debate of 'what even is arts etiquette'? Am I not free to consume it however I want? It's performance art - the whole point is the relationship between the live subject and connection you feel with them in the room. I said sorry anyway, and I can see that I was being a bit of a bellend, if I'm honest...

But inside I wondered - why am I the bellend? I'm the only person here treating the other human in the room like a human rather than like a zoo animal. The etiquette is to navel gaze and swill your wine. No wonder performance art is almost exclusively the realm of middle and upper classes.

If I was her - stuck in the rafters of the Royal Academy for a week, people staring me down every single time I take an increasingly watery shit - I'd at least want someone to rock-paper-scissors me at some point.

Also real coward behavior by the guy here to to face away from the male model

How do you know he doesn't enjoy having his back turned

This seems kinda not great for the models. At best it seems like it would get cold. Just seems kinda weird to pay someone to stand in a doorway so people need to brush up on their tiddies/dong. Generally when people pay models to do things like this it'd considered bad but it seems to get a pass when it's 'provocative art'. Also I'd probably keep saying excuse me louder and louder until they move cause I'm not a Midwesterner

But why nude models?

Going through multiple times but with different shitty disguises like a fake mustache or sombrero.

Hell, even if they were fully clothed...

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This is literally the people as furniture bit from Soylent Green, and even people at the top of the modeling racket in the west make me uncomfortable thinking about everyone on the lower rungs of the pyramid scheme being pushed around by the little Kanyes and Epsteins of the world.

Racists are going to have a field day with this one :yea:

What a shit job, huh

lowkey fatphobic

How long do the models need to stand there? Do they get breaks, do they swap after a few hours? Do people who are sick get to go around them? I wouldn't want them to catch covid from anyone. I think these nude models need a union.

Its extremely silly that people would be confronted by the idea of having to sqeeeze between two people uet here we. Culturally, are.

I’m a midwesterner, trust me, this is a dream come true.

I too would face the pretty naked lady instead of the pretty naked man. call me a coward, see if I care

I would face the male model for fear of seeming like a creep. They're both hot though.

fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck 😱 💀

I face away from the guy because I'm a misandrist, you face away from the guy because you're afraid of accidentally docking. We are not the same.

I see that dumb_lucre watermark on the pic. Same guy who posted CP on twitter to make a point and is still there. Yeah this will be a long one

What if the guy on the right gets a boner? Do you have to jerk them off to get through?

Am I allowed to also be nude when I squeeze through?