Shredding Banksy's the Girl and Balloon - The Director’s Cut
When Banksy shredded his artwork the moment after it sold at auction, he left many questions unanswered. What are we to make of the stunt?
"There are many ways a work of art comes into being, be it an additive process, a subtractive process, one that must unfold in space and time, or one that's immaterial and not existing until the moment it's performed and then disappearing as soon as it's over," says Sarah Green. "Girl with Balloon was one artwork, and now it's another that came into being through a public auction but which still very much has a material presence, because the object wasn't destroyed — it's only half-shredded — and since it was canvas going through, the remaining fringe is pretty stable." In a sense, then, even this self-destructing artwork never really self-destructed. So what, in artistic terms, actually happened to it? We may continue arguing about it for years, but it will always come back to the shredding itself — an event reliable at any time in Banksy's "director's cut" video just below.
The bottom part is the Director’s Cut including the whole process.
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