Friday, October 21, 2011

"...If you haven't gotten naked or cried during a critique...

...you're not in art school."

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~ Ali Yaqubian  10.21.2011

Yesterday one of Ali's fellow students named David asked Ali "to kick the shit" out of him for his conceptual art project.  David was going to wear a camera on his head and document the beating.  Apparently David's artistic point of view is about sadism and "the edge of sexuality" and the art he creates is about that.  I guess the concept was that the camera would document the effects of each blow.  Art school, right?  In college, there's always someone that is doing that; in art school you kind of have an excuse, a justification for that kind of exploration.

Ali, a pacifist, couldn't do it so he called "The Icelandic Viking" out to do the the job.  Bigir is built like a redwood, taller than Ali (so maybe 6' 7"), fists like canned hams, as Ali says, HUGE.  You can hear him coming - the floor shakes when he walks.  Although he was working in the photo lab, Biggi sounded excited at the prospect.  "I get to hit David?  I'll be right there."

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Bigir & his kids

 

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