Showing posts with label WTF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WTF. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

WTF

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The Rape Tunnel



He's promising that anybody who enters it during the exhibition, he'll attempt to rape.

"In 2007 at the Seward Projects Space in Columbus, I had my first breakthrough with an installation that was to be the prototype for this current one. It was called THE PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE TUNNEL. It was the same set-up as THE RAPE TUNNEL except at the end of the tunnel I’d punch the subject in the face instead of raping him or her. The impetus was completely reactionary to the current state of art, and motivated by pure frustration.

As it turns out, I ended up breaking the nose of the third person to crawl through the tunnel, an aspiring model. She went to the hospital and eventually sued me. Her modeling career was put on hold. The civil case was long and drawn out and the matter still hasn’t been resolved. To this day she still has unpaid medical bills. The point of this long aside is that all this took place two years ago, and I’m still having an impact on this young lady’s life, something not many other artists could claim about their work

Rape seemed like the next logical step."- Richard Whitehouse, The Rape Tunnel

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Friday, August 28, 2009

Monday, August 03, 2009

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

A response to Tarot Card post in Craigslist

Joel E. Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:03 PM
To: gigs-q4jce-1295605660@craigslist.org

I'd love to do the gig! I have acting experience and, although I've yet to
play a psychic, I have watched real psychics at work. I know how they read
people by observing their physical appearance and mannerisms. I know how they
stay in character, and I know I can do it too. I have the confidence and the
chutzpah!

I respect my audience and will be very careful about what I suggest to them in
case it influences decisions they make. If absolutely necessary, like any
honest psychic, I will break character.

--Joel


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Mark A. Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:08 PM
To: "Joel E."

Hi Joel,
Do you have any references, link, pic, resume that I can look at?
Do you have your own costume and table setup?
We really want the reader to be legit if not at least look legit.
Mark


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Joel E. Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:34 PM
To: Mark A.

Hi, Mark.

For these kinds of performances, I wear the average garb of modern Chinese
peasants -- loose-fitting blouse and pants, kind of like what you might see on
some of the older folks in Chinatown. It's more believable this way. I find
that it's best to be subtle. With this subtlety I'll be transformed into a
completely legit reader. Rather than a obviously costumed fraud, I'll be a
real-deal, no-kidding, genuine psychic.

Attached is a picture of me playing an Oriental Aristocrat. I'm in the left
panel of the picture. The panel on the right shows Paul Reubens playing a
German Aristocrat.


Cheers!

--Joel

Friday, July 10, 2009