from artnet.com:

WILLIAMSBURG ARTIST EATS SHEETROCK
We've heard of starving artists, but this takes the cake (so to speak). Pittsburgh-born, 29-year-old New York artist Emily Katrencik is eating the sheetrock wall that separates the exhibition and living space at LMAKprojects, a gallery recently opened at 60 North 6th Street in Williamsburg by art dealer and art historian Louky Keijsers. Since Jan. 1, 2005, Katrencik has been eating 1.956 inches of sheetrock each day, in an effort to "collapse boundaries between the artist and dealer, and the architecture and the body." She promises to keep it up for 41 days in all, until a sizeable passage between the two spaces has been, um, cleared. "It's not bad for her health," said Keijsers. "Her teeth still look good." An opening for the show is slated for Friday, Jan. 28, 7-9 pm. For more info, see www.lmakprojects.com. The gallery also has a Chelsea branch at 526 West 26th Street, #310, where an exhibition of works by Silvia Russel is currently on view.

i went to the sight but there aren't any really good photos of this.

i love it when you post stuff like this. like the guy that coated the house in melted cheese. that was pretty awesome.

wow!

and agreed, always love ayah's art posts [from a fellow art/design geek;)]

Laura, still have your Suicide mp3's. Sent you a PM last Friday.

I don't want to seem like an old fuddy-duddy but isn't this really fucking stupid and the sort of thing that gives modern art a bad name?

You can just about smell the desperation of someone with fancy ideas and no talent trying to make a name for themselves in the art world.

your disgruntledness is sort of missing the point of ayah bothering to post this hilarity in the first place, kon.

I missed the point? Oh God, not again!

I like the word "disgruntled" especially when applied to me.

how can you tell if someone is "gruntled," by the way?

maybe they mean the same thing, like flammable and inflammable

Don't you just love the BS? I was an art student and heard crap like this all the time from the other students. Usually, the more outlandish the explanation, the crappier their artwork really was. For a great example of this, check out the art-class scenes in Ghost World. I swear that was a real class they were filming.

...or, as I recently found out: "unkept" and "unkempt", the latter of which I never even knew existed.

it's not that interesting when people have lots of talent and no ideas, and it's even worse when people have ideas and no talent (or worse don't use their talent).

AMAZING!