Shock rock: Artist s**** d*** (2010)
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What started out as an interview of an anonymous, fed-up artist, quickly transformed into Kim Min Su "interpreting" and writing shock rock lyrics. Thirty-four years after the classic COUM Transmissions Prostitution show, for "Mistress X" at least, the song remains the same.
Mistress X writing an email: I would really like to go to your art show opening, but…
(Message sent. Now opening the curtains of the artist’s studio...)
This artist has to suck dick, suck dick,
Artist has to suck dick.
Pay the bills,
Artist has to suck dick.
Dealer dick,
Artist has to suck dick.
Funder dick,
Artist twirls—and sucks dick.
Curator dick,
Strap it on and I’ll suck, baby.
Collector dick,
Artist trampolines to suck dick.
Art journos, art mags,
On knees to suck your dicks...
“Yo X, gimme your contacts,
I’ll take ’em and not suck your dick.”
And you wine-stealing bitches and poncy art critics?
You fucking walk in the gallery,
Without a clue of what went into this,
And after two minutes,
You say WHAT?
* * *
(Telephone rings...)
(Closing the curtains of the artist’s studio.)
(Turn music clip off below.)
“Hello?
Yes, that sounds really good. Thank you.
Yes, we can pay for that.
Yes we can pay for that—too.
No problem. Really no problem.
Looking forward to it.
Speak to you soon. Have a nice day.
Have a great day.
Good-bye...”
Click below to restart the music...
Marilyn Manson. Cake and sodomy.
Mistress X has to suck dick, suck dick,
Artist has to suck dick....
Editorial advisors comment—
John A. Walker: I recognise the situation—but it is rather sexist—i.e. it should also be “suck clit” because many artists and gallerists are female.
M. Contraband, Esq., the PUNK lawyer (& artist): Suck dick is merely a metaphor, don’t you see? Not literal, or clitoral... not always, anyhow. Could have been “kiss arse”, for example, or “kowtow”. However you say it, the message is clear. And you can dance to it.
L.A. Roka (imagining he’s a staff writer for US TV journalist Anderson Cooper): Sucking cock isn’t always the perverse or dirty metaphor. In fact, it packs the right form of liberating and emotionally satisfying expression. It doesn’t have to be trivialized as an act of submission or servitude.ads by artdesigncafe
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