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| Настроение: |  sick |
| Музыка: | Ah Cama-Sotz - EXORCISE - MURDER THEMES III |
| Entry tags: | art, horror, music |
John Fare: The Story of Missing Parts
Кстати, если кто-то забыл
(я например совершенно забыл все детали,
сегодня искал, нашел, но не без труда)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_
http://www.john-fare.com/threads.ht
John Fare: The Story of Missing Parts
Have you ever heard of John Fare? Or John Charles Far'e?
Don't be mislead - it is the same person. First time I
heard of him was at a dinner in 2002 in New York. His
story, or what I would call 'the story of missing parts,'
was extremely bizarre: supposedly John Fare was a wealthy,
and perhaps psychotic, artist who rose to infamy in the
60s after he contacted a cybernetics and robotics expert
who helped him construct a programmable operating table
with randomizing auto surgery. At various performances
throughout Europe and Canada, Fare was supposed to have
had numerous body parts lopped off and replaced with
bizarre plastic decorations, each crude precursors of the
now-standard flesh/hardware interface. The legend goes
that, between 1964 and 1968, Fare was lobotomized, lost
one thumb, two fingers, eight toes, one eye, both
testicles, his right hand and several random patches of
skin. As you may have predicted, a robot-assisted-suicide
was his ultimate performance.
"He killed himself in the very close circle of fans and
that was his last art piece," said Georg as he finished
telling me Fare's tale. "Was it a malfunction of a robot?"
I caught myself in the momentarily suspension of disbelief
as the story seemed too unreal to be anything but the
vehicle for a conversation that would change the flow of
dinner. "No, he claimed that dying is an art like
everything else. Yet I am not sure whether the death of
him was real or fake. He might have performed an Andy
Kaufman-type of prank on his audience." "Was he a prank
himself?" I wondered. "We don't know yet, that is up to
you to investigate." Georg and Elke shrugged their heads.
To be introduced to something from its final moment was
quite a puzzle. However the name of John Fare was easy
enough to remember, so I Googled it when I came back from
the Rocking Horse. My suspicion that John Fare was a
creation of Georg's immediately vanished as I came across
a number of Google hits, which ranged from an extensive
John Fare biography published by Tim Craig in Studio
International, vol. 949, Band 184, November 19721 [i] , to
the List of Unusual Deaths [ii] where John Fare is
introduced as a "Canadian artist, decapitated by a robot
during an art performance." The list also states the date
of his death: 1971 (in other sources it is 1968.) Here we
come across the first parallel with Lee Lozano [iii] who
probably is the most blunt case of withdrawal or
disappearance from the artworld, yet not such an extreme
one as John's, who merged life and art seamlessly through
the act of a suicide.
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Крипипаста за 30 лет до того, как их изобрели.
До кучи, вот рассказ Боуи
HE DIARY OF NATHAN ADLER
OR THE ART-RITUAL MURDER OF BABY GRACE BLUE
https://dbfan.tripod.com/diary.html
аналогичного примерно содержания
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