Monday, November 25, 2013

Kanye West Working With Racist Performance Artist


Kanye West raises eyebrows by working with notoriously racist performance artist Vanessa Beecroft.
Discussing the criticism of his work and the reason behind creating his company "DONDA," West notes, "I created DONDA- which is a context experience and product company... I'm actually working with Vanessa Beecroft who is actually a performance artist that comes from the art world." -Kanye West, Ellen Show, Sept. 19.
Who is Vanessa Beecroft?


Vanessa Beecroft had better prepare for some serious damage control, since director Pietra Brettkelly's documentary on Beecroft, The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins, opens at Sundance tonight. The doc cluster-bombs her fetishization with Sudanese orphans and paints Beecroft as a hypocritically self-aware, colossally colonial pomo narcissist. The film is brutally effective because it lets Beecroft hang herself with damaging quotes and appalling behavior.
The documentary explores Beecroft’s experiment in Sudan, in which she attempts to adopt two Sudanese orphans and use them as subjects in her work. Wise to theory, Beecroft says her adoption will be “not just fetishization of the blacks. It will be a beginning of a relationship with that country.” The film documents the significant gap between Beecroft's theory and her actions.
Upon her arrival in the Sudan, Beecroft hurries to set up a photo shoot, hiding the cameras from the orphanage's sisters, calling the babies “these poor creatures.” Which baby should she photograph? “Either one or the other,” she says, “it doesn’t matter.”
Repeatedly, Beecroft claims that she “loves this culture” — but, in the film’s most disturbing scene, sisters from the orphanage try to stop her from stripping the children nude inside their abbey for an elaborate photo shoot. Beecroft refuses, complains, starts shooting again, and eventually loses a physical confrontation with one of the sisters, who takes the children away from her, furious that Beecroft is stripping children naked inside a church. “Christ, these people,” Beecroft moans, as she barricades herself inside, pushing a pew up against the door to keep the sisters out of their own abbey.
“My husband says, ‘You are so superficial,’” Beecroft admits. But Greg Durkin, a social anthropologist, says much worse in the film — in part because Beecroft spends months attempting to adopt these two children without informing him. (When she finds that she needs to have his approval, she considers a divorce.) He notes that Angelina Jolie's and Madonna’s adoptions rated them “a lot of press and publicity … Vanessa’s always been very receptive to that.” Beecroft blithely agrees, noting that she's always been obsessed with “the romance” of celebrity magazines.

When Beecroft finally installs her final work, VB61: Still Death Darfur Still Deaf, it's the standard Beecroft hokum: mostly-nude women in a public place, only this time they're painted pitch black and covered with buckets of fake blood (get it?). Intended to disturb, it mostly provokes giggles from gawking tourists, but Brettkelly films the performance like something in a David Fincher film. Beecroft stands over the bodies, with red liquid dripping from her hands and splattered all over her feet — a murderer at the scene of a crime. “Is it difficult to work with 30 black women?” a spectator asks. “Yes,” Beecroft replies. “It is very stressful.”
Jacked from Oh No They Didn't  

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does Kanye know how to use Google before working with artist?

Anonymous said...

Lol@this story

Niyabinghi Warrior said...

These two asshats are a match made in hell. once afrikans on the continent stop entertaining these parasitic succubus vampires, I will find a fuck to give.

Anonymous said...

koonye so thirsty for publicity he'll prolly try to join the KKK next.

Anonymous said...

No trying about it! He is the "White Man's Nigger"!

ThatBKChick said...

MOF-ING ((((SPEECHLESS))))).....SMDH

Anonymous said...

He is truly the new slave

signwithclass said...

well said 5:21

Anonymous said...

Kanye is truly lost I agree with all the comments above, Kanye has no integrity he has no soul, As soon as Niggers like him wise up and honorable black americans pull together, and work together to build and get from under the white man's thumb we won't have anything

Anonymous said...

Africans really need to fight against this type of shit allowing these racist crackers to study them, letting these devils in is what caused your asses to be enslaved. Why doesn't she take her ass to europe and fucking study her own people. White trash

dreadee said...

SMH...someone bring this kneegro back and pimp hand that crazy white broad.

Anonymous said...

Kanye hates black people including himself, so anything that he does to degrade blacks is no shock. He should be boycotted and ran out of the business.

Anonymous said...

Statement from Beekroft:

I'd like to thank Kanye for showing this new generation how to become new slaves. All of you will be predictably angry with our collaboration but will continue to listen and support our lifestyles.

Anonymous said...

Wow! Just when you don't think kanye can get any lower. SMH

Anonymous said...

This does NOT surprise. Its far beyond evident that Kanye hates being black. He is so IGNORANT. A true nigger.

zeeedeee said...

About that statement..bitch not me!

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