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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Aug. 29, 1983)
Monday, August 29, 1C33 Daily ftebrcskan Pchd 35 FciCj :;::c3 art: - , : TIio fccy co canvao Arnold .varzkcgler repeatedly cut offsquare pcrtisns cf his skin, wm in critical condition at a hc :; :ir:l for three days, then died. Thi3 was an crtuwfe - ... In a previous action, he castrated himself in front cf video earners. As disturbing these actions sound, they fall into a crowm category known as body art or f-crfsmitico art ' . They cr'J it nude, Chris Burden has himself y 3 Billy nailed to a Vclkswcon bug and driven around his neighborhood. They call it art. Get the dif ference? v Since .the late Fifties (and even earlier in Japan) some arttsts'have been using their bodies as their canvas. Carolee Seneeman, a true pioneer cf modern female artists,' once layed naked on a gallery floor and let snakes writhe around her body in the '60s. Host people jude performance or body art to epitomise the self-indulgent extremes that some modern art has become in recent years. Whether you Ll;e it or hot, this form of art is here to stay, snd it remains one of the most forceful, (if not cne of the most disturbing) singular expressions of our time. . Not all performance artists can be accused of public and societal indecencies. Ocxcasion aHy trite in nature, many performancebody artists depict such things as man's inhumanity to man, man vs. ra&clrine, man vs. nature, etc For many pec-!3, these demonstrations seem like a Kiadmca pven publicx space. By their very nature, some performances of body art turn people off. For example, Chris Burden cr.ee had a friend of hi3 shoot Burden in the arm vrith a gun, and for his Master's thesis at Eerkeley, had himself locked in a school lecl:er for three days without food or water. These acts may sound like "Animal but the aesthetic is to depict the human body's limits. In other words, the artiit U the artwork. No middleman. " -s- - Cc.tf2d ca Page S3 rp'iiiili v W ASA ' ( t 1917: Jacks. . . Continued from Ptge 31 his selection of singles from the Sixties. The names and titles were familiar but still a little vegue. Questicnmark and the Mysterians, Dion, Sam the Sman and the Pharaus. I picked up a copy of Bobby Darin's . "Splish Splash." I thought to mj'self, Thb record is older than I am. It can get into bars in Lincoln and I cant." Gene Vincent, Buddy Holly, and Eddie Cochran are the toughest records to find, he said. He cred its new groups, like the Stray Cats for the increasing demand for rock abilly music. But the records that sell the best at Jack's shop are the 1050s rhythm and blues records. An exam ple is the Flamingos' fist singler "Stormy Weather," which is worth $60 to $150, depending on its condition. "People could be sitting -on a gold mine of old records in their closet and not even realize ithe said. 'Cr r . , ... ' ' : j II :Fortud::iv 'pn to utilizo cz 'r p!zr,n:nn services-. . . this cmz3i:rt a actios of meetings , wi!i b3:hz!J in th3 Rostrum of the r i ' iLjrz-o Union .on: -z ; ----- iik::::- TO COVERED: (..::rv;:rs : ';;:'en r r(0Xf I u 1 y - - - X. zM (0) ft 21 i.C(cil!l ( I IK rt If Jj f I L ( U I ( I ii A v 'J w , I'.