I didn't see any posts about this.

https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/ywqg87/jennifer-rubell-invites-you-to-throw-a-pie-in-her-face

It seems like this has already been done. However, I guess you could argue that just because one person painted a picture nobody else should be able to do the same thing.

I guess that's why I'm not an art critic.

Many years ago, in my home town, a bar had some wam-based evenings set up. I was married at the time and my wife was a prude, so I was unable to attend any of these nights. One night you'd pay ten bucks and pie the exotic dancer of your choice, another night was pudding wrestling, then wet T shirts, etc. It only seemed to go on for about a year, then it was cancelled or new owners took over or something. But I'm pretty sure the manager at the time was into wam at least to some degree. I think the pie night was the most popular from what I read at the time.

I don't think many people would have come across this. Well spotted. It is new (the show opens in March) but a 'performance artist gets pied' post did appear here a few years ago. I can't remember if it was an earlier incarnation of the same idea or not.

The general critical narrative of such performances is not unique, but perhaps this individual's take on it is. But for the purposes of this forum, who cares?!

People will doubtless be clamouring for pictures from the event when it happens.

Performance Art (note that the interviewer name drops, but fails to mention the most famous performance artist in recent memory to use messy food eroticism: Karen Finley [covering herself with chocolate] ; also he writes "piece" instead of "pie")

Here's a quote (a bit disturbing) from the article/interview:

"Carolee Schneemann , Marilyn Minter , Narcissister , and other artists have used food to convey sexual liberation and transgression. Does foodcream piece [sic] in this casehave a similar connotation for you?

Of course cream has a sexual connotation. Pieing, or throwing any kind of food, is most often an act of political protest, a shaming of the empowered by the disempowered. But you put a woman on a pedestal and throw pies at her face and it's hard not to free associate to a gang-bang. Whereas in political pieing, the victim is the powerful one. But this kind of victim/perpetrator duality is oversimplifiedI've always felt like everything at the same time: victim, perpetrator; empowered, disempowered; on top of the world, an insecure girl. In relation to the #metoo climate, I think this piece is as much a portrait of the harassers as of the harassed."

I will leave it to others to comment on her 'free association" statement and her semi-equating the acting of throwing a cream pie at a woman as a "form" of harassment...

Golly. Artists take themselves SO seriously sometimes. I think this artist is highly conflicted (not able to reconcile the opposing thoughts/feelings she has with this type of "performance art"/experience). No mention of its humorous dimension. But it does show that there are many "layers" or dimensions to such a simple visual gag.

I think this is another one to take into the kitchen, Wamajama

Not only the interviewer's referencing oversight (Finley) but their phone's auto-correct (on which they literally phoned in their copy) betrayed them too.

I do find the combination of WAM and body politics rather unsexy.

Ok, THIS is one of her past works

This woman may know the location of R'lyeh

I do admit I never associated pie-ing and gang banging together. That's a new one. lol

She's not clear about it but I'm guessing she was thinking of facials.

Sounds to me that the way that the situation has been set up has basically made it impossible to laugh. e.g., she implies that she sort of pities anyone who participates because of how hard it'll be for them.

Maybe she's right, but that's kind of sad. I guess the aim of high art is either bloated irony or total seriousness, on the assumption that broad comedy can't also make you think. Which is understandable. But if she sets up the mental space with High Seriousness, the end result will probably be just as phony and one-dimensional as the expectations brought into it. A self-fulfilling prophecy.

Actually what if a group of people stormed the gallery armed with pies and REALLY let her have it! I mean she's essentially positioning herself in the role of privilege and pretension with these controlled pieings in a way-too-serious-for-this-forum performance piece. Would be the perfect slapstick setup...perhaps fodder for a new script

"What if somebody sees me there?"
"What if somebody does! And what are THEY doing at that bar?"

I'm sure what happened at the WAM bar stayed at the WAM bar!!!

Regis: my thought exactly. Although, in that type of g-b, the "model" is typically lying down (so I've been told) not standing...I really like the comments here, for the most part...I also think this is an example of what some conceptual artists call "decontextualizing" (fill in the blank) or perhaps RE-contextualizing...one can only wonder about this artist's personal background/history...

Potatoman: I'm sure no actual octopuses were harmed in the making of that artwork!

Multi-limbed, soft-bodied creatures of the world unite!

We are the CLF! (Cephalopod Liberation Front!)

I came across this several days ago and I must say this is probably the biggest waste of pie in the history of WAM. Just look at a pie hit this artist took. The filling is way too thick. Yes this probably sets a WAM record with over 100 pies on a table, but man I hope there were good hits. If the hits were too hard though, I'm sure it would have been considered assault.

What were you doing at the bar!?
I heard they had free chocolate pudding...


I'm just scared this bitch can invoke the old ones!