To think "vaginal knitting" is just odd?

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This came up on my fb newsfeed so apologies for the daily mail link.

Now I don't agree with the "let's bully her on Facebook" comment in the article or threats of violence but if you are going to sit in a room for a month knitting the world's longest scarf out of wool which you store in your fanjo then you should appreciate that not everyone is going to say "oh yes, such a statement on feminism!" Or wow! So artistic!

Because this is, quite frankly, odd. And if she was a friend of mine I'd tell her that. And I'd never want a scarf she had knitted either.

On the plus side, if she ever has a baby, it will be born fully dressed.

Gosh, that's a bit extreme! Can't someone buy her a knitting bag to keep her wool in? I shudder to think where she keeps the knitting needless!

I winder if dp took viagra and sat with wool wrapped round his knob knitting from it if it would be considered art? He could add knob cheese for added "texture"'.

We could certainly do with the Monet money.

Coco you need to threaten your dog with this
www.amazon.co.uk/Knitting-Dog-Hair-Kendall-Crolius/dp/0091791839/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1456782224&sr=8-1&keywords=dog+hair+knitting

I still maintain its not art. Is she on the same scarf that she started in 2013? Does she have a website where she sells fanjo-scarves?

Or is she being funded by someone else to sit about knitting stuff that most likely smells rank?

I "get" weird sculptures and paintings and even the half a sheep thing but I cannot fathom how she expects to live her life doing this?

she'd earn more shooting ping pong balls.

, absolutely grim .

She makes cunt shoes as well!
www.theguardian.com/profile/casey-jenkins

It makes me feel a bit squeamish because like a pp said it must make you very dry.

But, that said, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with being attention-seeking. Each to their own, it'd be a dull old world if we were all the same!

What a fucking idiot. It's not art, it's attention seeking and demeaning to women and genuine artists.
If she wants to shove something up her twat, try her own head.

The mind boggles it makes my Fanjo feel all itchy just reading it.

Andy Warhol did piss paintings and come paintings.
From what I remember it wasn't all his own work. He got friends to contribute some of the "materials"

I think it's great that people are doing all sorts of weird stuff like this. I'd be a bit worried about getting fibres of the wool embedded in my vagina though

I never have and never will understand modern art. Call me old-fashioned but I prefer something nice in a frame.

^This.

No, I meant what BirthdayBetty said.

If you actually do some research on the artist, you will find that she has done a lot more stuff than just this one thing.
Would people be so critical of 'nail biting performance'? A piece where a woman stood on stage, biting her nails.
Or the Russian guy who nailed his scrotum to the floor?
If you really want something to criticise, what about Wei-Wei's self indulgent portrayal of himself as the dead Syrian child. Now that is revolting.

People paid money to watch someone biting their nails?? Christ, I am missing a trick here. For a fiver you can come over here and watch me bite mine. I'll even make you a coffee and put Jeremy Kyle on if the nail biting gets a bit boring.

Why would anyone want to nail their scrotum to the floor? Would that not be a bit sore? I'll suggest that to dp when he gets in from work but I think I know what he will say.

I've just asked DH to twang bits of broken uncooked spaghetti across the room with his knob whilst mouthing the words to the old Topic advert from the 1980's. 'What has a hazelnut in every bite?' 'TOPIC!' Each time he gets to TOPIC!, he wangs a bit of spaghetti at a chorizo carving of Che Guevara.

Yours for £50,000.

I don't want to watch anyone doing bonkers stuff and pretending it's art TBH.

How can you put wool inside your fanjo? That just gives me shivers just thinking about it. it must be itchy and what abuut all the bits staying in?

Me neither Sparkling, I wish people would keep their weirdness to themselves.

*BigQueenBee Mon 29-Feb-16 21:35:55
I am seriously considering making artisan cheese in my fanjo. I think there might be a market for such delicacies. *www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/vagina-yogurt_n_6661792.html

Seriously though, I don't mind the statement she is making. While people still think vaginas/vulvas are revolting and something to be ashamed of, I reckon there's still room for art which challenges that.

I saw this the other day and thought it was gross, but maybe that says more about me than the artist?

Why oh why did I have to click the link...

I hate the explanations for this type of art or 'message' it portrays rather than the art itself. Bollocks.

And unike Monet, I doubt people will want to pay millions for fanny scarves in 100 years.

It's a bit gross, yes. But the fact that this is the initial reaction says all kinds of things about society and taboos.
Even as someone studying art, I think a lot of it can be self-indulgent wank. But then, in amongst that, can be things that make me stop and re-examine my view of the world.
Lots of stuff won't do that, but what works for me on that level, won't be the same for someone else, so there needs to be lots of stuff produced, in the hope, that we each get to experience that moment of 'I never looked at it like that before '. Which is what good art should do, imo.