If we have to endure another shitty art exhibition showing Photo Booth and Facebook screen dumps along with a pompous manifesto of some elaborate bullshit idea about the universe thought up on a DMT high at some lame-ass art school party we’re going to start that digital pulse war nerds like talking about in secret. What happened to doing cute and funny stuff and actually having a point? Like Japanese artist , who, in her performance “The Reason Why I Become a Hamster,” dresses up as a hamster and lives like a hamster in a human sized hamster cage eating gigantic sunflower seeds and chewing on paper and big chunks of wood for a whole week just to show us how our souls suffer from the incarceration of our civilized modern society. She’s like hamster Jesus blessing us with the warm fuzzy feeling of tummy butterflies humming “KAWAI!” She’s also the cutest rodent we’ve ever seen so we asked her if she would be our hamster for a couple of days. It didn’t quite turn into the cutesy pen pals sending each other hamburger Band-Aids and little plastic banana men scenario we had imagined. Instead she got all upset and we had to apologize (who knew hamsters were so sensitive?), and only then did she agree to answer our questions, but not the silly ones.




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