Alex Bag Is Hilarious

Performing for us the wildest musings of her art student personality, the video "Untitled Fall '95 remarks on art school and a character's rude awakening to the art world. Portrayed through this student is the discouragement that her character experiences as a young artist. The Caricature is perfectly created through her personality with high expectations, naive speech patterns, trendy dyed hair and all. This is a caricature of a young art student that is discouraged by criticism, unfamiliar with concept, and has copped many assumptions on the expectancy of success. It is an image easily understood by anyone that has met an edgy art student in the past decade. Among the other hilarious art school characters is a pretentious visiting artist. Demanding, also overly expectant of success, and with an absurdly serious overtone. It is funny, but also sad in a way that demonstrates the deconstruction of a young artist by their own high and unrealistic expectations and critical surroundings. It is also a demonstration of the more humorous side to the presumed sophistication of art. Art that makes fun of itself is often not taken seriously, which is an issue that Bag addresses in this work and targets with triumph.


On the same note as the post below on A Bucket of Blood, the performance portrays many stereotypes of artists that ask the viewer to pose some questions and observations about the role of humor in art, and to question and critique the absurd personalities and ideas presented in real (non-movie scripted) art and artist as well.