I'd like to share my thoughts on Gaga and art. Personally I think there's been an over reaction to the Swine performance but at the same time I understand why. If your opinion differs from me and you didn't like it. I respect that. Just please respect me in return. Of course you're entitled to your opinion over Gagas vomiting performance on stage and in the past. It's your opinion and that's fair enough. If you don't understand it as art then that's fine. Some ppl in the world get and understand conceptual art and others don't. There's nothing wrong with it either way. You don't have to be like everyone else or have the same mind or judge anyone, including yourself, as being right or wrong about art. Accept your experience and leave it at that. Art has been unbelievably vulgar for a very long time. You like Andy Warhol I presume? He created pieces of art by getting strangers to come and urinate on copper sheets to create chemical reactions on the copper. Disgusting but interesting. Why? The reactions that he provoked in ppl. Marcel Duchamp challenged the art world by submitting a urinal and naming it the fountain and signing it R. Mutt, a character from a comic strip at the time. Ppl thought it was rude and vulgar to see such a thing considered art. Yet it's an iconic piece of art now. I saw it for myself sitting in MoMA, amazed. Amazed at a urinal? No. Amazed because if the impact and message that was behind it. The intention of the piece. The power it had in making people question what they considered art to be. To stop people following a group of "know it alls" & to force people to have opinions and make up their own minds. I saw a video piece in Berlin once of an artist who was shitting onto canvas. I was disgusted and couldn't watch. But later realised that that was the artists intention. To provoke reaction. Piero Manzoni created a piece called artists shit in a can in the 1960s. It is a recognized art piece. Disgusting and a little vulgar? Yes. But what does it make you question? Another artist who's name escapes me, created beautiful photographs of a container of his urine and blood. Before it was explained to me that this is what it was I thought they were aesthetically beautiful. When I realised I was disgusted but that was the reaction that the artist wanted. He wanted us to question. To react. Marina Abramovic has involved self mutilation as part of her performances in the past. Something that could be completely frowned upon yet she's loved. I admire her so much as an artist but I look beyond the performance to what it is as an art piece. I look at myself and how I react. I question what the intentions are and what they relate to. Concepts. I look at concepts and associations. The thing that people don't realise with @gaga is that she IS an artist. She could create extremely successful contemporary art pieces that would be at home in MoMA or the Guggenheim. She has created pieces that could be displayed in these museums and fit right in. She is as misunderstood as a person walking into a contemporary museum or gallery who has had no experience of contemporary art today. As an artist, for me, she is doing the difficult task of bringing ART to the forefront of an industry where ppl are used to sex selling and music artists conforming to expectations in order to be commercial and sell. Gagas not doing that anymore. Has she ever? I admire her more now than I ever did. And it's for all of the reasons that I mentioned above. Yes, she had an artist come and regurgitate a dyed milk immediately after ingestion. But there's more to it than that. I would ask ppl to detach from themselves and see it from a perspective that doesn't involve themselves, understand it for its message and intention from Gagas perspective then come back to yourself and analyse your reaction against her intentions. Whatever the outcome of your analysis, it's fine. There's no right or wrong. But at least you've interacted with the work as an art piece. Then just let yourself move on. @gaga