David Bowie pissing into a toaster

A fine example of the Banksy-esque artwork of fictional artist 15Peter20 from the Nathan Barley TV series created by Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker, who described the character like so, in a February 12, 2005 article from The Guardian:
Either a genius or a dazzling genius, depending on which way you look at it, 15Peter20 (real name Ian Phillips) has made his mark in the world of contemporary photography thanks to a series of shocking, gimmick-heavy exhibitions in which the gimmick quickly becomes attached to the underside of the art, then scuttles up its back, hops on its shoulders and screams which direction it should go in, while simultaneously flashing its bum at passers-by. His new collection, Piss Bliss, consists entirely of photographs of celebrities urinating, thereby expertly capturing their animal vulnerability while exquisitely forcing jocular postmodernity to commit taboobicide. These pictures are at once the most revealing portrait photographs ever taken and an absolutely bloody flabbergasting waste of the world’s time.
This piece appears in the book Fucking With Your Head Yeah? that came with the original Nathan Barley DVD release.
Via Kraftfuttermischwerk
Posted by Richard Metzger | 10 Comments
Comments:
Jan 03, 2011
P. Emerson Williams says:
The way the continuum of TVgohome to Nathan Barley and indeed all things Chris Morris pushes not only taboos, but also uses of medium is amazing to behold. I do wonder, though if this commentary on art will still have the same bite in a post-bourgeois west?
Jan 03, 2011
toast says:
My head! It has been fucked, along with the place I call home, for it is now full of wet space goo.
Jan 03, 2011
Jan 03, 2011
Auntie Irony says:
David’s wiener is actually much bigger. But where I can see more Piss Bliss?!?
Jan 03, 2011
JasonsRobot says:
I like smart people who cleverly mock people who pretend they’re smart. Especially when the latter group doesn’t get that the former is doing so. I wonder if that’s the case here.
/wow. i think that actually makes sense/
Jan 03, 2011
Katt says:
Barley - peace and fucking! http://www.trashbat.co.ck/
Jan 04, 2011
brett burton says:
At least once a week I think about Nathan Barley and laugh to myself. Possibly the most underrated English comedy of the last 15 years. Richard Ayoade was hilariously dumb at the sugaRAPE writers meetings.
Jan 04, 2011
Chadwick says:
Oh. Wow. So that’s art, is it?
Jan 04, 2011
JasonsRobot says:
@Chadwick
Yes, it is art - but probably not the genre you think.
Sep 01, 2011
Shane says:
Okay, this sort of disturbed me when I first saw it, but only because he was peeing in a Toaster! Come on, David, that is not the correct way to use a toaster! Anyway, I find it interesting that pictures like this are an art form….. Well, whatever floats your particular boat, I guess!
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