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>A Sort Of "Simulation-Sincerity"
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>ARTFORUM MARCH 2000
>http://www.westernculture.net
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>"Pussy and Beer was a simulation. My ex-girlfriend lives in Berlin and I
>never took any risquÈ Polaroids of her during the duration of our otherwise
>tumultuous affair. I don't even usually drink Budweiser beer and I'm not
>sure I am the correct Cary Peppermint anyway."
>
>- Cary Peppermint from Santiago, Chile, via phone interview
>
>
>"Pussy and Beer and Online Auction via Ebay.com" provoked responses ranging
>from annoyed, self-described feminists to a loose group of irreverent sports
>fans. It is conceivable, however that all responsive parties to the work
>were united in their undeniable state of arousal regarding the gesture of an
>artist who auctioned a set of erotic Polaroids of his ex-girlfriend and a
>case of beer using the online services of Ebay.com. When asked about his
>intentions with the work Peppermint says, "I wanted to feel judgment and
>morality directed upon me. I wanted to access a junction in myself where I
>am capable of such a base act of betrayal and perversion. The most
>successful aspect of this simulation is that I did in fact begin to feel the
>pangs of guilt exacerbated by the fact that several 'artists' even refused
>to speak to me for a while. Also interesting was the fact that many people
>wouldn't address the work by its proper title, instead referring to it as
>'The Beer Piece'." For Peppermint this was a sort of psychological probe,
>an assessment of where we are morally and politically situated within the
>micro-cosm of the online art world and beyond. When asked about the
>validity of works of simulation on the part of the artist Peppermint shrugs,
>"The advertising world and its incessant stream of texts tells lies in the
>service of capital and exchange. I attempt to locate a sincerity amidst the
>same system of lies only this time in the service of art and at a
>personalized cost of my own psyche, a sort of 'simulation-sincerity'."
>
>-LB
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>Peppermint : Directory
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