Salon.com > Video Art http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What does “outsider artist” even mean? http://www.salon.com/2012/09/16/what_does_outsider_artist_even_mean/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/16/what_does_outsider_artist_even_mean/#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13011773 Last week, my fellow Hyperallergic editor Kyle Chayka wrote a post about video artist Wendy Vainity, who makes bizarre, creepy, and sometimes funny 3D animations. Chayka began by posing a question: Does Wendy Vainity actually know what she’s doing?

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I found this lead-in curious, as it’s not clear what the alternative would be: that Vainity doesn’t know what she’s doing? That she somehow made her videos and posted them on YouTube without being fully conscious? I’m not sure. Chayka draws out his point later in the post. He writes:

Are the videos outsider art, or the work of a knowing artist making amazingly weird work on purpose? Wendy Vainity might be the Henry Darger of the web, an artist working outside of the mainstream but creating something so strangely compelling that you just can’t look away.

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