Defenestration Now

[Dave Monroe]

The premise behind Joe Sola’s 2005 video piece Studio Visit is simple.
Over a period of two years, he invited collectors, curators, and
critics to his Los Angeles studio to talk about his art. He would turn
on the video camera, chat amiably for a few minutes, and then take a
flying leap out the closed window in an explosion of shattered glass.
His guests would dash to the window, only to find Sola chortling on
top of a pile of strategically arranged cardboard boxes eight feet
below. “People would scream with fear and pleasure at the same time,”
he recalls. He repeated this act 22 times.

Studio Visit brings together Sola’s interest in performance art and in
Hollywood filmmaking. (He trained with a stuntman to prepare for the
piece, and the window glass was the breakaway kind used in action
movies.)  ...

http://www.artnews.com/2011/12/06/biting-the-hand-that-feeds-them/

Defenestration Now

http://www.everythingisterrible.com/2010/11/defenestration-now.html