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performance art is a curious bidness. of that there's no doubt.
i have no opinion about pippa branca's motives or assessments of risk involved, btw--i don't think they're knowable and they aren't relevant in any event.
like i said, obviously the piece was not designed with this outcome in mind--but it's not the first such piece.
i don't think it was designed around suicide, nor was it designed with the idea that she'd be raped and murdered.
for suicide as art, think mishima.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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