Topic: Mt Everest on display (Page 1 of 1)

http://www.artnews.info/gallery.php?i=318&exi=1991

This has got to be fake, right? Just the logistics of carrying that much weight down (in one piece) would make it impossible... Then there's the time it would take to cut it (it's not exactly like you can camp out on the summit for a day or two while you're working), and there's no mention of Xu here: http://www.everestnews.com/cor/august2005.htm

Interesting idea for an art project though I suppose...

It is fake.

WebShaman | The keenest sorrow (and greatest truth) is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles

ORLY?

Nonetheless the idea is crazy.

quote:

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Audiences may not believe that this is real, which is similar to how people rarely question whether the height of Everest truly is 8848 meters. This relationship between belief and doubt has to deal with questions of standard, height, reality, and borders, that the Long March - Chinatown is interested in examining. The work points to the ridiculousness of people?s belief in "facts" and "universal truths". The work "ridicules" humankind?s quest for "height" to overturn and disrupt the preconceived social and historical values.

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Perceptions of this "piece" should derive from one's "personal" "belief" in the efficaciousness of rhetoric and doublespeak as legitimized by the "liberal" use of "quotation marks." Furthermore, only when the "viewer" or "experiencer being" is instructed in proper interpretation through the "digestion" of esoteric morphemes and idioms should said individual attend the showing.

yea, what he said. ^^