Only in New York City could eating drywall be considered 'art'. What I find troubling is, how much of my taxes might have funded that drywall she's crapping every morning? Talk about flushing your money down a toilet......LOL :-)
This is my favorite quote from the article: ""In art school, I majored in sculpture," Ms. Katrencik said, "but I didn't make a single object."
LOL!
I honestly can't believe how absurd the "art world" has become. It wasn't so long ago that such behavior justified a straight jacket and several doses of electricity to the temples.
Only in New York City could eating drywall be considered 'art'. What I find troubling is, how much of my taxes might have funded that drywall she's crapping every morning? Talk about flushing your money down a toilet......LOL :-)
"In art school, I majored in sculpture," Ms. Katrencik said, "but I didn't make a single object."
I'm pretty sure she's making objects now—probably one or two a day, roughly cylindrical in shape, mottled brown in color, 6" to 10" long, aromatic, ...
I will apply for an NEA grant for my newest work, "Cluttered Closet"
"Yer so ugly you could be a Modern Art Masterpiece!!!
Five days a week, Ms. Katrencik consumes a section of wall 1.956 inches square and three sheets of drywall thick, for a total of about 8.5 cubic inches of drywall; she rests on Sundays and Mondays. Each meal takes about half an hour. She began on Jan. 1, to ensure that there would be a sizable hole before the opening on Jan. 28, and will keep it up until the exhibition closes on Feb. 27, at which time she calculates the hole will be large enough to stick your head through. She usually gnaws directly on the wall, working away at a sizable, eye-level hole, and avoids eating when the public is present. Video of her ingestion is included in the exhibition; she also removes some of the plaster and bakes it into loaves of bread, which are available for gallery visitors to sample. "Part of it is that I'm really broke," she said, "so this is a way to get the gallery to cover my food costs."
This is not the first time Ms. Katrencik, 29, has consumed architecture for her art. In 1999, while in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she began eating the Le Corbusier-designed Carpenter Center at Harvard. Alone at night, she would sand the building's rough edges and lick the resulting concrete dust from her palm, often documenting the private performances on video. And her work is not without a pedigree: Janine Antoni, for instance, carved 600-pound blocks of chocolate and lard with her teeth in 1992. "In art school, I majored in sculpture," Ms. Katrencik said, "but I didn't make a single object. I'm better at taking things away."
So how is this diet affecting her health? "I try not to think about it," she said. "Instead, I look at the things in the wall that are good for me, like calcium and iron." One of the main components of drywall is calcium sulfite, she noted, a mineral that can be found in tofu, canned potatoes and some baked goods. She said that she had not had any digestive problems, but was careful to eat a lot of vegetables to balance the binding effect of the plaster. And the taste? "This drywall tastes pretty chalky," she said. "I prefer cast concrete because it has a more metallic flavor. You can taste the iron."
Yes, he ground up the metal parts and ate a little powder each day.
Later he took a bet and ate a helicopter.