According to Moiré’s blog, the naked performance is called ‘The Script System’ and is inspired by the script theory of cognitive psychology. It deals with the stereotypical course of events we live by everyday that are ever-recurring. She wanted to challenge this blindness to our surroundings because she says that — especially when we’re on our daily trip to work — we often function without actively perceiving our surroundings. So, the idea was to make the invisible visible to create freedom of thought.

What do you think? Is this art? Similar to Deborah de Robertis flashing her vagina under the ‘The Origin of the World’ at the Musée D’Orsay in Paris, the question of provocation arises. Is this a loud scream for attention or conceptual art? Feel free to comment below or tweet us at @onesmallseedSA.

For more provocative performance art, click here for Deborah de Robertis’ Vagina Activism on one small seed.

Deborah de Robertis beneath Gustave Courbet’s famous ‘Origin of the World’

one small seed was unable to get hold of de Robertis at this stage, but in an interview with wort.lu, she explains that it was only exhibitionist in nature if the context is ignored. ‘What I did is not an impulsive act. It is very thought-through.’ She further clarified that she is challenging the role that confidence plays in connection with the naked female body, or the representation of it. When we look at a picture of a naked female, we’re in a safe place, we’re voyeurs and often happy that our gaze is not being returned. Once the portrayal comes to life, however, we’re dealing with a hell of a lot more. We become awkward, embarrassed and nervous — stripped of the confidence we boasted when we were merely peeping. What is de Robertis saying about the way society looks at women?

What do you think? Is provocation a way to put across a point? Is provocation necessary to make art? Is it art? Feel free to comment below or tweet us at @onesmallseedSA.

A similar performance just happened at Art Basel 2014. Click here for a woman who attends the event naked with just the words of clothing items written on the appropriate parts of her body.

Or, for more provocative art click here to read our interview with Jamie McCartney, the ‘Plastercaster’ who created ‘The Great Wall of Vagina‘.

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