Safety officers on the scene last night, as the wreckage of the C2 bathroom leaves many in shock and disbelief. From one bystander: “I was just going to see my friend at our designated third period smoke spot, but when I got there, the bathroom was destroyed.” Destroyed is an understatement; doors were ripped off hinges, sinks dislocated from plumbing, and a student was sprawled in the middle, bathed in a puddle of various fluids. We were able to ask them a few questions before they were dragged away.
Apparently, the carnage is just the latest in the student’s series of art installations, which began last year with the H2 oil painting and A Building Sculptures. Our first question was of course, why the C2 bathroom? Their response: “In kind of an Ed Ruscha style, I try to only use my immediate surroundings - and I don’t deny the Cattelan influence - the work exists only insofar as reality does; that’s the irony of it, really.” Utter nonsense, from a clearly deranged person. When asked about their greatest inspirations, they responded: “Marilyn Arsem, Rebecca Belmore, Tania Bruguera are probably my top three.” They paused here, took a quick mango-flavored hit, and screwed their face into an expression that was more pensive than the last, as they delved deeper into their thoughts. “Although, the focus of modern performance art on criticizing something, or embodying a time and place has always irked me; I prefer the infinite domain of human emotion.
”The safety officers quickened their pace, and before we knew it, our neo-Savillite post-structuralist deconstruction anti-impressionist pro-post-impressionism friend was gone. Looking back at the bathroom now, it kind of just looks like how it always does. Maybe that’s the Ruscha influence.