Students destroy a Skoda for 'art'

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From autotrader.co.uk
By Tom Webster

It is often said that art is subjective and might mean different things to different people.

But a show put on by Newcastle University graduate Joseph Steele certainly falls into the ?controversial? bracket of modern art.

Steele put on a show in Newcastle on October 29 that saw him and a friend riding into a gallery on motorbikes and smashing up an old Skoda with crowbars while surrounded by scantily clad models.

Take a look at our slideshow of the gratuitous destruction of the Skoda, which we are able to bring to you.

What we can?t show you is the adult film the artists then showed to the 120-odd people in attendance.
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Here's a link to the full picture gallery: http://www.autotrader.co.uk/EDITORI...art_exhibition_gallery&slidePageType=features
 
So smashing something while surrounded by models and then watching a porno is art now? And here I thought it was just a night out on the town.
 
I'm still wondering why my tax dollars went to pay for that.

Not for any religious reasons, mind you, but because it isn't art. It's crap. It's certainly not worth $15,000.

I would be happier if he had smashed a Skoda (or the American counterpart, a Cavalier) with hot models in attendance. That's at least a better spend of my tax money.
 
2Billion said:
So smashing something while surrounded by models and then watching a porno is art now? And here I thought it was just a night out on the town.
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This is art as much as rickrolling people is. I'd go to it, but not under the pretenses of "going to an art show".
 
I've always said that, if i can't find a proper job, i could always become an artist and smash and burn things up in the name of art.
 
Back in my day it was called "Halloween."
 
Werner said:
I've always said that, if i can't find a proper job, i could always become an artist and smash and burn things up in the name of art.
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Which is why Paris is the center of art culture.
 
It's entertainment, which by some definition is a form of art, therefore it's art.

Of course, it doesn't make anything good just because it can be labeled as art. Only an idiot vine drinking wannabe snob could think in that way.

Smashing shit up is to art what reality television is for movies, it's crap. If it was real art well it would make the JC the freaking Michelangelo!

I prefer Jesus in piss for this, it's freaking brilliant. :lol:
 
The Skoda clearly wasn't their Favorit.

(Yeap, the estate version was called the Forman.)
 
So why are they all dressed rockabilly? I don't really care that he smashed a skoda, but calling this art is BS. I want to punch this guy in the face. Show him some real greaser style violence.
 
BlaRo said:
Back in my day it was called "Halloween."
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And back in my day it was called "Saturday night".

I loathe arty people, especially the students. My wife was a theatre major for four years, and a few years ago we went back to her college to meet with some alumni. I swear; all those people made the stage their world, "oh the DRAMA!!" All of them overly dramatic, and I kid you not, all the women had husbands just like me: Earthy, modest and quiet.
 
So for them?art?is what we call ?Protest of the Zelaya supporters?over here.
 
I see American Apparel, Parliament cigarettes, PBR and Conor Oberst albums are just as popular over there, it seems.

Fucking hipsters.

P.S.: I fucking hate Conor Oberst.
 
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You'll have to bear with me here but the first thing that came to mind after reading the original post and then all the replies was a piece of poetry by TISM that has a name I do not know. The last verse in particular. (I apologise for the outdated & obscure references within)

I've been listenin' to silverchair, now, I wish I was a freak;
Been readin' The River Ophelia - I'd love a masochistic streak;
But I am just a normal guy... I even use a capital "S" -
Why, I'd rather tell the papers that I secretly cross-dress;
'Women Who Run With Men Who Hate Wolves' just left me unimpressed -
I'm sure that I'd be happier if I could be more depressed.

To get anywhere these days it seems a problem's a necessity;
Your father's gay; heroin's passe - just another fashion accessory;
I tried Recovered Memory, but that put me in a bind
'Cause I became hypnotically aware that my folks were really kind.
You might have once been traumatized, but we're not all similarly blessed -
I'm sure that I'd be happier if I could be more depressed.

I went along to the Men's Movement - "Stop crying, girl," they'd shout;
Steve Biddulph, who wrote that 'Manhood' book, got up and punched my fuckin' lights out!
I went along to the women's room, but all I did was get it wrong -
I told 'em 'Smack My Bitch Up' was my current favorite song;
"But the Prodigy are so confronting!" I tried vainly to protest:
I'm sure that I'd be happier if I could be more depressed.

I lied to the Gambling Help Line, said I'd made my family poor -
When I asked what chance of recovery, they quoted me 9 to 4;
I rang that Alan Jones guy up, but he couldn't help me either:
"You a battler or a bludger?" he said - it turns out, I was neither!
"Come back when you're a stereotype if you wanna be in the press!"
I'm sure that I'd be happier if I could be more depressed.

Finally I told the wife the reason I'd been so undemanding,
And what was worse, she took it well, and was totally understanding;
"Those self-destructing relationships are simply too much fuss"
Whose Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, I gotta say, not us -
Would you believe I actually like my kids? Can you get more mentally messed!?
I'm sure that I'd be happier if I could be more depressed.

Why is it just so hard for me to take things way too far?
I'd like to travel beyond good and evil... but first I gotta wash the car;
I'd like to get a nipple ring and connect it to my dodger,
But somehow... it just doesn't seem to suit a bloke whose name is Roger.
I'd be a member of the underclass... but they'd laugh at how I dress:
I'm sure that I'd be happier if I could be more depressed.

So it looks like I've got to give up my dream of joining The Bad Seeds -
Those guys can't handle confronting concepts, like "thanks" and "please"
Sneaking 16 things in the "12 Items Only" aisle will be my biggest sin;
It's the shopping center of modern consciousness that I will stay trapped in -
I buy my junk from off the streets... I find The Trading Post's the best.
I'm sure that I'd be happier if I could be more depressed.

I just know I can't be creative... Why? I'm not depressed enough -
Yet I wish I was the guy who wrote: "If you're creative - get stuffed."
There's a competition going to see who can have the most painful lives,
But the pain you feel from nine to five I guess don't qualify.
Your life might be miserable, but that don't stop your art from being crappier:
I'm sure that I would be more depressed... if I wasn't happier.
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Aw man, I love that album.:lol:

But anyway, those kids suck, that's not art, waste of taxpayers money etc.
 
At my university we destroyed a Ford Festiva (with flame stickers on it, it was preposterous!) but we did it for Relay For Life.
Sadly...we didn't have such good looking girls :(

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