Word: weirdness
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...line. Trains whiz by left and right. An 8.5" by 11" sign perches on a guitar case: "This performance has been modified in the following manner: It is fitted to fit this subway platform." Karl Swetland wears a yellow hat over frizzy brown hair that creeps out like Weird Al Yankovic's and a pink tie-dyed shirt reading "Red Raspberries" that compliments his acid-washed jeans perfectly. Commuters look on in wonder as the beanie babies in his guitar case stare back in equal amusement. Swetland fights for attention with the little girls across the tracks claiming they...
...Shoes: The shoes were really nice too. They are simple and have that solar strip. General metal on shoes looks really rank, and on dress shoes like that it can look really stodgy. But on him, it looks fine. Generally, I think that weird, triangly short of shape doesn't look right, but it looks really good with his outfit...
...have some fun. One reason for the popularity of Young British Artists in the past couple of years is that they help us rethink our affection for pure camp by asking a simple but all-important question--is it possible for a work of art to be just plain weird? Can art cultivate its own apolitical pathology of weirdness, like a wax museum, or is weirdness always a subversive comment on a world that is itself, a priori, weird? The Wilson twins, Jane and Louise, balk neither at the weirdness of the world nor the weirdness of the work...
...richness of the experience, like the woman trapped in the ball of water, we are forced to navigate blindly, without volition, like a surveillance camera floating at fixed speed. And in the end we are frightened less at what we see than how we see it: fragmented, choked, hovering, weird...
...Their separate performances last weekend at Sanders is the closest father and son have been so far to sharing a stage. Still, while Ben has never performed under his father's baton, he hopes that he will someday. "It might be weird. I mean, what would I call him in front of everyone else in rehearsal?" he explains. "But my father is a great conductor and I imagine there is lots to learn musically from...