A Scandinavian art student had a scare when the making of an art video went wrong.
With a video camera running, 26-year-old London-based artist Hilde Krohn Huse hung herself upside-down by her ankle from the branch of a tree, naked, with her face in the grass below.
The intention, Huse said, was to show a subject "being unable to free herself."
The problem arose when the video was finished and...Huse was unable to free herself. She had to scream for help for half an hour before finally being rescued by a friend.
Huse later appraised the video as "quite decent." The judges of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition apparently agreed, naming the Norwegian "one of the 37 brightest art prospects graduating in the UK."
(Although perhaps in this case "brightest" might not necessarily be the absolute most appropriate word...just sayin'.)
Mike
(from artnet news. Photo at the link might not be work/school safe.)
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Marc: "Let he or she who has not got their head temporarily stuck in a railway overpass guard rail while having a look at passing trains cast the first stone. What? No-one? Dammit!"
Bryce Lee: "I'd call that the inversion factor. Crazy kids!"
Maggie Osterberg: "Two words: 'Photographer's Assistant.' She needs one."
Nominated for Darwin Awards (both the artist and the judges)
That said, I have to be a bit skeptical. Art or stunt?
Posted by: Michael Cytrynowicz | Friday, 17 July 2015 at 03:42 PM
I'm not an artist, but a photographer, so I can't make a judgement on her art. :)
Posted by: John Krill | Friday, 17 July 2015 at 05:22 PM
Mike wrote, "Although perhaps in this case "brightest" might not necessarily be the absolute most appropriate word."
A low bar.
Entries are here ...
http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/2015/artists
Huse's entry here ...
http://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk/artists/hilde-krohn-huse
Posted by: Speed | Friday, 17 July 2015 at 05:28 PM
One has to wonder what the other 36 have going for them.
Posted by: John Dahlstet | Friday, 17 July 2015 at 05:41 PM
Maybe Ms. Huse is a true believer in truth in advertising? Certainly nobody can accuse her of misrepresenting a subject "being unable to free herself."
Posted by: Luis Aribe | Friday, 17 July 2015 at 07:33 PM
Call me a stick in the mud, but I don't see a lot of difference between this and those photographers who risk their lives and others to photograph on rail lines. You've mentioned this problem before.
She's lucky she didn't end up getting seriously injured or killed.
Posted by: MarkR | Friday, 17 July 2015 at 07:56 PM
Irrespective of the pun, these days, so few objects of art stand on their own. There's always a story, some dramatic episode conveyed in some weak attempt to super-size your interest in the nothingness before you. The height of this lowbrow endeavor is when the artist needs to tell you not only what your looking at, but why. Bewilderment of junk is no cause for self doubt.
I call B.S. on the entire upside down mess.
Posted by: Steven Major | Friday, 17 July 2015 at 09:51 PM
The artist might qualify for an honourable mention - http://www.darwinawards.com/stupid/
Posted by: Dave | Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 03:20 AM
Hoist by her own petard?
Sorry but someone had to!
Posted by: Ian Christian | Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 05:55 AM
Clearly she was just making an exhibition of herself...
Posted by: Steve Jacob | Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 07:12 AM
Wait long enough and pretty much everyone will eventually do something stupid.
Posted by: Robert Roaldi | Saturday, 18 July 2015 at 08:54 AM