You’ve no doubt heard of Baby X – born in a Brooklyn artist’s gallery, on purpose, last month. The artist, Marni Kotak is now planning on a little more exploitation – “Raising Baby X”, a post birth project aimed at developing respect for child-rearing.
Come to my house! Visit a family with children if you lack respect for child-rearing.
It’s nifty that Kotak is turning her life into art but will Baby X be raised as the project… always the show? Does life need to be a public act since we’re all tripping through it? Let’s see if she’ll have another child in the name of art.
I think it’s a bit cruel on the child to raise them in public as a project, but that’s just me. It’s a strange and unusual form of art, but at least it’s original.
It’s original to call it art but it’s hardly an original circumstance. Almost 500K babies are born in the world every day… and so many are documented (photographed/filmed) outside of public galleries.
Thanks for visiting, Olletron.
One of the wonderful things about art is that everyone has their opinion of what is and what isn’t. I’m not sure how I feel about this. It’s kind of like looking at a family photo album…boring unless it’s your family.