jackassworld

The masturbatory act of writing about art is just that: gross self-indulgence. Me, I’ve never had a taste for it. I mean why go to such publicly embarrassing lengths when you can just sit in the bathroom and hammer it out in privacy with a much more practical end result? So instead, for this otherwise lackluster event of releasing production stills from jackass 2.5, I have appropriated some random bio done up for the photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. With but a few simple nips and tucks—indicated in brackets—I’ve magically transposed his arty crap for mine, which really calls into question the fine line between art theory and sheer idiocy.

“[Sean Cliver] is a photographer whose images of the human condition are undeniably powerful. For more than [seven] years he has pursued his interest in [absurdity] and how it impacts the physical world in which we exist. Finding beauty within the grotesque, [Cliver] pursues this complex issue through people most often cast aside by society: human spectacles including hermaphrodites, dwarfs, amputees, androgynes, carcasses, people with odd physical capabilities, and fetishists. His fascination with other people’s physicality has inspired works that confront our sense of normalcy and decency, and the resulting photographs are haunting and beautiful, grotesque yet bold in their defiance, a hideous beauty that is as compelling as it is taboo.”

Okay. Fuck art, let’s dance.