Shopping Bag + Subway Grate = Art?

By Alex in Art on Aug 10, 2007 at 5:53 pm

German artist Richard The tied shopping bags on to subway grates in New York City – as the subway train passes, the air flowing through the grates will inflate the bags, creating an "ephemeral sculpture."

Now, is this art? Link [embedded YouTube]


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  1. Jake D.
    Aug 10th, 2007 at 9:40 pm

    Garbage on the streets of NYC? That iiiss art.

  2. Kat
    Aug 10th, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    I was watching some art show on PBS (I think it was called Egg) and it was about a guy that built a machine to function like a stomach, so it basically produced artificial poo that he called art. It was an installment in some art gallery for a while and everything.

  3. andrew
    Aug 11th, 2007 at 12:15 am

    it’s art. it’s just not good art, and shows very little creative thought.

    Even “Piss Christ” was more interesting than this.

  4. matt
    Aug 11th, 2007 at 9:32 am

    Kat – that’s Wim Delvoye (the machine was called “Cloaca”). he also tattooed pigs. if i recall correctly, some of the tats were bad-ass harley looking designs.

  5. Alex
    Aug 11th, 2007 at 12:52 pm

    Wim Delvoye and his tattooed pigs were featured on Neatorama here: Link.

  6. Weakly
    Aug 11th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    Do you have to go to school for that?

  7. Lydia
    Aug 12th, 2007 at 6:44 pm

    Even this was better than that ridiculous chair-dress.


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