Prostitution of Art "Twins":: Fausto Grossi and Milan Kohout [83]

Missive 1. From Fausto to jw:

"I send you this photomontage that I have made on 1 February 2013

I sent on 2 Febrary 2013 to Milan right through Facebook with this message:
Dear Milan
this is to let you know
that I share your message
health
Fausto"

Missive 2. From Fausto to jw:

"...as you can see below
from the email that Milan has sent me
he is very happy with my image
and he has uploaded on Facebook
which makes me very happy

actually the problem is the internet jungle
the highway of disinformation is a mystery to me
but I try to do my best"

-- "Helllooooooooooo Fausto...
it is wonderful !!!!!!!!!...Your Milan" -- "

From Milan's Facebook Page
8 de mayo
Dear comrades,
Here is an example of a wonderful interactive use of art while being a public domain..after many years I did this poster and send it to the digital world a wonderful italian artist Fausto Grossi finished my performance situation..

Fausto Grossi
Italy/Bilboa, Spain
where Fausto will be performing: http://www.openspace32.de/
Fausto's Pasta y Pizza Grossi restaurant in Bilbao: www.pastaypizzagrossi.com

Milan Kohout
Czech Republic
Moje webovka: http://www.mobius.org/blog/11
wikipedia: http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kohout
Poster situations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobiusorg/sets/72157625733673264/
Book: http://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/158648/proved-vola-svetem-volem-zustane/#recZak

...a situation on the capitalist job market: Milan Kohout [81]

...a situation on the capitalist job market

Milan Kohout
Czech Republic

Moje webovka:  http://www.mobius.org/blog/11
wikipedia:  http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Kohout
Poster situations:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/mobiusorg/sets/72157625733673264/
Book:  http://www.kosmas.cz/knihy/158648/proved-vola-svetem-volem-zustane/#recZak

Capitalistic Rene Magritte's shaving industry: Milan Kohout [74]

This poster situation is called:

"Capitalistic Rene Magritte's shaving industry" .

It is about that stupid requirement by capitalistic societies to shave the body while we are not supposed to show it.

And of course also about the picture being just a reflection of a reality, not reality.

It is not a vagina - it is a picture of a vagina.

Milan Kohout
Czech Republic
http://www.mobius.org/artist/milan-kohout

The Politics of Shoes Redux [57]

photos by Milan Kohout

In May 2009, Mobius presented a group exhibition and weekend of performances called "The Politics of Shoes", inspired by a series of shoe related events in December 2008.

After the exhibition ended, all performances and works in that show were documented on an online blog, http://politicsofshoes.blogspot.com/ along with two critiques, one of the show in the form of poetry by Jill Furumoto and the other a prose impression of the show by national journalist G. Jeffrey MacDonald, and related links, interviews.

It seems that the time has come once again, the walrus said, for the revival of shoes in politics.

What does the politics of shoes have to do with The Prostitution of Art?
(with a bow to Ray Johnson):

Politics = Prostitution = Art = Life = Death

Hollywood and the war machine [55]

This link to a video of an interview with Oliver Stone, Michael Moore and war correspondent Christopher Hedges from the Al Jazeera network was sent via Milan Kohout:

Hollywood and the war machine

Empire examines the symbiotic relationship between the movie industry and the military-industrial complex

"War is hell, but for Hollywood it has been a Godsend, providing the perfect dramatic setting against which courageous heroes win the hearts and minds of the movie going public.

The Pentagon recognises the power of these celluloid dreams and encourages Hollywood to create heroic myths; to rewrite history to suit its own strategy and as a recruiting tool to provide a steady flow of willing young patriots for its wars.

What does Hollywood get out of this 'deal with the devil'? Access to billions of dollars worth of military kit, from helicopters to aircraft carries, enabling filmmakers to make bigger and more spectacular battle scenes, which in turn generate more box office revenue. Providing they accept the Pentagon's advice, even toe the party line and show the US military in a positive light.

So is it a case of art imitating life, or a sinister force using art to influence life and death - and the public perception of both?

Empire will examine Hollywood, the Pentagon, and war.

Joining us as guests: Oliver Stone, the eight times Academy Award-winning filmmaker; Michael Moore, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker; and Christopher Hedges, an author and the former Middle East bureau chief of the New York Times.

Our interviewees this week are: Phil Strub, US Department of Defense Film Liaison Unit; Julian Barnes, Pentagon correspondent, LA Times; David Robb, the author of Operation Hollywood; Prof Klaus Dodds, the author of Screening Terror; Matthew Alford, the author of Reel Power; Prof Melani McAlister, the author of Culture, Media, and US Interests in the Middle East."

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/empire/2010/12/2010121681345363793.html

PoArt Performance: Milan Kohout [52]

Milan Kohout
The Mobius Artist Group
Boston, MA, USA and Czech Republic
www.mobius.org/content/full-bio-milan-kohout
www.mobius.org/blog/11

9/25/2010 - The Prostitution of Art at Open Studios:
Milan had kindly agreed to do two last minute participatory performances during Adriana Disman's durational performance.

Photos: Bob Raymond







11/2/2010 - Post Performance Artist Statement:


MK (Artist):
Here is my statement for your show where i was on the leash:

Wake up and bite your masters!!!!
I have been always saying what I have felt and I will continue to do it in-spite that stupid "political correctness",and some kind of fake "respect" to others which is our american society requiring from us. I feel that such a requirement is actually killing the artists as the social critics. It is killing artists as the only sane members of each society in the whole history of human kind. Artists should scream their feeling absolutely openly and as loud as possible and without absolutely any kind of the mind censorship. And nowadays comes again time for the artistic uprising!!! Because the fucking capitalistic oppressive system we live in is getting still bigger and bigger power over our lives and the rich "chosen pigs" think that soon we will turn into their disposable and completely controlled mass of the brainwashed slaves. Slaves who would maximally go as the sheep to their controlled puppet elections and would consider it as the taste of freedom.. We "the artists" have completely failed to be the rebellious scandalous and offensive social critics. We accepted the humiliating PC servitude position obeying the ruling class of the rich pigs and as so we have only "decorated" their chosen lives as the little poodles on the leashes. We have been "masturbating" some kind of empty conceptual post post modernistic boolshit art which has been building and "celebrating" only empty shelves of our existences as the real equal human beings in our society. We turned into the worst possible prostitutes- prostitutes who sold their minds and morality. I have to say that I respect prostitution as the honest job when you sell your body for fair and negotiated price not being forced into such a deal. But what absolute majority of nowadays american and as matter of fact even the whole world artist have done was a mind sleazy prostitution into which they were forceful pushed by the rich pigs who own the most of the capital in the capitalistic societies. We should rebel and create the artistic revolution and smash those fucking rich pig's oppression. We should wake up and grab back our art as the tool for the permanent social revolutionary change. We should use the force of art to reestablish our freedom of minds and bodies. We should return art where is belongs- as the political tool of the community, and the whole society. The word politic comes from the word Polis . And Polis means community of people and not masses of individualistic disconnected idiots controlled by the rich pig's medias. We should be again the equal human beings who enjoy their liberty and sharing of it within our communities. Long live artistic revolution!!! Fuck the ruling rich pigs!!!! Fuck capitalism !! Fuck private ownership of the space!!! Fuck "sold capitalistic democracy" which is serving only to the rich pigs. Let us brake our leashes and shit on the heads of our "masters"!!! It would be easy!!! Rich pigs are terrified of us because they know that slave mind can be controlled only by a short leash. Wake up and bite your masters!!!!
Milan

PoArt Exhibit: Updates #21

The featured artist on Monday November 22nd, 2010 will be Milan Kohout of the Mobius Artists Group who performed at the closing of the Prostitution of Art exhibition.

Guerilla Performances #2: Milan Kohout [25]

Documentation of Guerilla performances on Labor Day weekend

Sunday September 5th, 2010
Freedom Trail: Granary Burial Ground
Boston, MA, USA

with Milan Kohout

Photo taken by EG

About prostitution. I think that even "wake up next to sam adams" is about a prostitution. It is also about the fact that nowadays artists do not address serious issues in the society and do commercial, entertainment or empty academic boolshit art. So to try to wake up people-artists is also about their sleepy prostitution.

Milan Kohout
The Mobius Artist Group
Boston, MA, USA and Czech Republic
www.mobius.org/content/full-bio-milan-kohout
www.mobius.org/blog/11

Guerilla Performances #1: The Mobius Artist Group [24]

Documentation of Guerilla performances on Labor Day weekend

Sunday September 5th, 2010
Outside Park Street T Stop
Boston, MA, USA

with Milan Kohout, EG and aj (Jane Wang)

prostituting ourselves on the street
for the sake of
Mobius
Art Is Everywhere
and more specifically
The Prostitution of Art and Signs of Our Times
Exhibition and Performances
September 18-25th, 2010 @Mobius

Photos of EG and aj taken by Milan Kohout
Photo of aj and Milan Kohout taken by EG

The Mobius Artist Group
www.mobius.org

Art is Everywhere sign by Jennifer Weigel
http://artiseverywhere-chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferweigelart.com/
http://chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/