The Rape Tunnel



Tha Fuck'd you Google to find this shit? Is this the same guy that burned all of his possessions as a form of art a few years ago? Art confuses me sometimes.
 
So let's say..oh I don't know...you purposely entered this Rape Tunnel and just happened to be carrying Mr. Nine Millimeter and when this dick bag tried sticking his cock up your ass, you put a slug through his cranium. Self Defense? Pre-meditated murder? Where's Johnny Cochran when ya need him? Either way it's definitely going to ruin his day and make a mess of his little art project.

On the flip side, I'm going to laugh my ass off when this guy sits in this thing for 5 hours and not a single, solitary fucking person comes in. Leaving him staring at the walls like a douche. Wow..now that's artistic.
 
efeezy said:
On the flip side, I'm going to laugh my ass off when this guy sits in this thing for 5 hours and not a single, solitary fucking person comes in. Leaving him staring at the walls like a douche. Wow..now that's artistic.
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I would send in a goat.
 
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.
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genius
 
Seems to me like the point is just to get people riled up? Nothing unjust is happening or being proposed; in this situation art = social experiment. (?) If the exhibition was actually carried out I think that someone probably would go ahead and crawl in knowing what was supposed to happen and then after that who knows.

efeezy, I think you may underestimate the idea (or the guy's weirdness) here -- ask the guy that question directly and I bet he would say that he hopes his project can answer that question or make people think or something. It's all just a bunch of posturing for the sake of making a point about "art" or society or something. You're doing the same thing really, because you aren't going to go to Ohio with your gun and crawl in the tunnel anyways, right? If you did it would be because of what this guy is doing which is just what he wants, to effect people's thinking. That's why I think he would say that he welcomes the guest carrying the gun. The test would be what would happen if it all did become real, but like I said that isn't going to happen so it's just a mind game... (which seems to be the point, so whatever..)
 
erect -- I also read that. Totally out there thinking, I sort of get it in a way, but it's just way to much thinking about thinking that gets someone in to that sort of frame of mind. I mean sure it's weird to say that you want to effect someone life by hurting them for the sake of art, but on the other hand why did the people choose to crawl in to begin with? Seriously, what makes someone want to call someone else out to the point of putting yourself in harms way just so you can say the person was full of shit? Then you crawl in and actually get punched, well, isn't that what you were told would happen to begin with?

Like I said, too much thinking from these folks; I'd rather just go out in the garage and work on my bike for the sake of art or whatever else. :)
 
What happened to the good old days when shit art was in the form of Andy Warhol and Campbells soup cans?

What's interesting is this guy has a team of lawyers who are claiming the disclaimer makes the act consensual. I see the whole thing as a gimmick to draw attention to himself. Many artists learn to think outside the box, a few like this guy are just in another world with no boxes. He got his 15 mins.
 
If you read about his goal for modern art this installment makes a lot of sense.

It reminds me of these performers who dressed like indigenous African tribal leaders and just stood in a cage and people thought it was real.
 
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