Mediated Performances

This is a performance photograph or should I say MY performance photograph. I went to a going away party last Friday knowing I would probably be inebriated and also knowing that many people would be doing just the same. My friend Alex said that we should play the game "chicken" with the other people who were putting each other on their shoulders. I agreed and of course, Rachael, being the party photographer that she is, caught every single thing that would make a great, drunken photograph. Everyone knew that she was going to be taking EPIC photographs of us and we also knew that they were probably going to be accessible online for our social networking buddies to see so ridiculous events such as this probably came about because we had known this and because we wanted to have fun. Its funny because I feel like so many people would not admit that but how many people pose or "perform" for a photograph these days knowing that it will eventually be online? Its as if its a sin, but everyone does it.

And in response to the reading I think underground art is bs. So many people can try to justify what underground art is and how only true underground art is produced by someone who doesn't receive money for it. I think people who are living in this society are desperate enough at some point to make sure that they are getting money for their work because they are unable to live without it. I understand that there is a fine line between making some money and a lot of money, but there will never be true underground art.