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Lord_Fukutoku
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: San Antonio
Insane since: Jul 2002

posted posted 03-23-2006 17:44

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...

WebShaman
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist

From: Happy Hunting Grounds...
Insane since: Mar 2001

posted posted 03-23-2006 23:26

It is fake.

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

poi
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Norway
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 03-23-2006 23:31

ORLY?

Nonetheless the idea is crazy.

Wes
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist

From: Inside THE BOX
Insane since: May 2000

posted posted 03-24-2006 08:26
quote:
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.



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.

docilebob
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: buttcrack of the midwest
Insane since: Oct 2000

posted posted 03-25-2006 06:42

yea, what he said. ^^



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