WGG Test
Included in
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
Paul McCarthy
2003, 5:20 min, color, sound
Depicting a sailing party gone wrong, McCarthy questions the effects that violence and mutilation, both real and simulated, have on the viewer in contemporary culture. The DVD includes an interview by Richard Meyer.
Produced by Bick Productions (Ilene Kurtz-Kretzschmar and Caroline Bourgeois) and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Executive Producers: Jumex Collection, Mexico, and Blink Digital, New York. Sponsor: The New Art Trust, San Francisco. Lead-in Music: Bang Goes.
disgusting and unnecessary
A&D 494T
History of Time-Based Media: Installation, Performance, Video, Internet Art
Paul McCarthy
"WGG test"
Handheld camera. In a room, girls in bikinis are chopping a guy's leg off. Repetitive images of chop chop chop. Blood oozing. Blood spattered all over the girls. Girls dancing. Girls holding cups of alcohol.
This was a 5 minute video.
If you recall, yesterday I saw cadavers. Real dead human bodies, cut up (well, they hadn't cut off the legs or anything).
That did not bother me except that it looked like chicken.
I looked away, considered stepping outside. I ultimately decided that I should stick to it, get through it.
Wild Gone Girls. Apparently it's supposed to be some sort of commentary on "GGW." They're both pretty sick, especially the fact that the latter is promoting itself by saying that profits from mardi gras videos go to Katrina.
RIP SPECS:
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Name.........: Paul.McCarthy.-.WGG.Test.2003.DVDRip.XviD-CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi
Filesize.....: 68.4 MB (or 70,129 KB or 71,812,462 bytes)
Runtime......: 00:05:34 (10,011 fr)
Video Codec..: XviD
Video Bitrate: 1583 kb/s
Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s (64/ch, stereo) CBR
Frame Size...: 720x480 (1.50:1) [=3:2]
Ed2k:
Paul.McCarthy.-.WGG.Test.2003.DVDRip.XviD-CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi 
Bonus material - Interview:
Paul.McCarthy.-.WGG.Test.Extra.Interview.2003.DVDRip.XviD-CiNEMAGROTESQUE.avi Take good care of yourselves, I hope you'll like this bloodbath.
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