Comments on: lilly mcelroy: “i throw myself at men” + “locations”.

By: eye_snap

eye_snap — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:56:39 +0000

she really is awesome…

By: daniel B

daniel B — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:15:42 +0000

LOVE IT!!!!!

By: alexia

alexia — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:48:13 +0000

I want to do this

By: denis darzacq: “hyper”. « shape + colour

denis darzacq: “hyper”. « shape + colour — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:27:08 +0000

[...] photographers: here is a similar visual fascination with seeing the human body in mid-air, like in Lilly McElroy’s “I Throw Myself At Men”, but now it’s taking place inside the sort of universally ubiquitous, flourescent-filled, [...]

By: I throw myself at men : NOT YELLOW, CHICKEN

I throw myself at men : NOT YELLOW, CHICKEN — Tue, 27 May 2008 14:08:54 +0000

[...] via shape+color [...]

By: MAY TWENTY SEVENTH 2008 « Randomess Weblog

MAY TWENTY SEVENTH 2008 « Randomess Weblog — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:12:30 +0000

[...] Lilly McElroy This lady is pretty awesome. I would say what she does is performance art, mixed with still art. As she throws herself at strangers and takes a picture while doing it. [...]

By: mullygrub

mullygrub — Tue, 27 May 2008 12:05:23 +0000

this is great. I really like “locations”, and have not seen it before. I understand your compulsion to make sure she doesn’t get run over etc. when discovering that the photos were taken in public places.

By: videoxy

videoxy — Tue, 27 May 2008 02:18:18 +0000

I love her too. And that you love her. Total awesomeness all around.

By: Lili McElroy Throws Herself at Men | Tangled Up in Blue Guy

Lili McElroy Throws Herself at Men | Tangled Up in Blue Guy — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:28:05 +0000

[...] captured reactions from this sort of performance art. No charge for admission, you just need to be strong enough to catch her and hold on to [...]

By: master

master — Mon, 26 May 2008 04:45:50 +0000

q mierda es esto?

no me venga a decir que es arte… que asco de arte

By: SD

SD — Sun, 25 May 2008 19:52:33 +0000

“When not dismissed as absurd, my actions were responded to with anger; re-emphasizing the fact that public behavior has become highly restricted”.

I don’t think this is the case; lying on the floor in a nightdress has never really been acceptable, so it’d been much more scandalous in the past.

By: aditya mukherjee

aditya mukherjee — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:11:49 +0000

they’re beautiful…i can see why you love her :)..

i do think though, that she reaches the wrong conclusion in:
“When not dismissed as absurd, my actions were responded to with anger; re-emphasizing the fact that public behavior has become highly restricted”.

I think a more accurate conclusion would be, (adult) people behave with hostility or fear or indifference to situations that are unexpected and not evidentally to their advantage. This would be an expected instinct in animals. Kids are curious, but by the time an animal grows up, it is supposed to have enough data for a consistent world view. When something happens that is against that world view, they will be alarmed, or try to ignore it. They will only change their world view if overwhelming evidence appears to the contrary.

Of course it makes things boring, and people quite stupid, especially since in modern day life curiosity is more useful than that reaction. In the wild though, it can be imagines that the opposite was true.

By: fivehusbands

fivehusbands — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:49:00 +0000

I love this - given my history I am thinking one of these should be hanging in my bedroom.

By: Zara

Zara — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:53:14 +0000

i love this so much. like, SO much.
kind of different from how i go about throwing myself at men, eh jer?
keep up the amazing, phenomenal, fantastic work love.
xo

By: brokenbike

brokenbike — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:47:55 +0000

I really really like this! I saw it a few weeks ago, but you have much more images of it.