Idiolexicon

I know I've already written too much about art in Second Life, but this was too delightful not to mention.

Digital Artists Eva and Franco Mattes have been recreating seminal works in performance art in Second Life. So far, they've covered Seedbed, Shoot, and Tapp und Tastkino (pictured above). Beuys' massive 7000 Oaks is currently underway.

The project is hilarious to me, and don't think for a moment that the irony is lost on the artists. So much of the effect of performances like this comes from the fact that they are taking place in the real world. Removed from meatspace, these performances lose their inherent shock value (yeah, they're weird, but not the weirdest thing in SL) and can be viewed with a certain objectivity and clarity. But of course, the whole point of performance art is that objective distance from art is a myth.