some pieces, mostly just foolin around   °&°

this little exercise is inspired by Joseph Beuys's Fettecke (german for "Fat Corner") and the incident in which the 5kg artwork was removed 9 months after Beuys's death by an caretaker/janitor/cleaner. The english wiki talks about a custodian, but I think that would be a different story or my feeling for the language is off. Anyway the incident made this artwork to one of the most famous of the artist and sparked a debate about what can or should be considerd art. Beuys himself considerd anyone an artist and I realy like that take, it removes a lot of pretenciousness from the topic. I never liked the self important attiude some artists seem to show, maybe that tells more about me than artists in general but it inspired me to not take the whole shabang to serious and sparked the idea of an "democratic" process for deciding "what is art". Hence this little contraception where you can vote for a "piece" beeing art, being not art or just leaving you completly cold/indifferent.
The implementation itself is kinda terrible, I didn´t read deep enough in asynchronius fetching and came up with a solution that "works" albeit rather poorly and I think only for a period of time before you have to refresh your browser cache.
I hate it and love it at the same time and think that if I realy include it in my planned portfolio side it would need a major overhaul.
The fact that you can vote multiple times is by design, since I figured if anyone cares that much they should be able to express that. In an overhaul it maybe would be interesting to track who(what, if you bot it) voted how often for which options. But I think in the end nobody will be, kinda would be pretentious to think otherwise and it's more or less just a joke and practice.
Joseph Beuys's Fettecke's german wiki-entry and the englisch "Fat Corner" one.