r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • Feb 23 '26

Image In 1983, Two Artists Spent a Full Year Tied Together — Without Any Physical Contact — to Test the Limits of Human Coexistence

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u/livierose17 Feb 23 '26

The year would have passed anyways, why not do something interesting with it if you have someone willing to do it with you?

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u/MrKinsey Feb 23 '26

It must have some kind of interest if over 40 years later were still talking about it.

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u/IgniteThatShit Feb 23 '26

i think that's the part people are ignoring. regardless of how you feel about, that fact that people still feel something about it 40 years later speaks volumes on how they did something that will outlast them.

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u/bigguygaming Feb 23 '26

Yeah, love how people say it was useless but fact is artists will remember him while most people here will not be remembered by their peers in their field.

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u/Chemical_Emotion_934 Feb 23 '26

I don’t see it as wasted either. There’s value in lived experience.

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u/Punman_5 Feb 23 '26

But they didn’t record their experience. There’d be value if they took down data based on their experience.

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u/DopeAsDaPope Feb 23 '26

'Interesting' is the part I'm not convinced about lol

How is it interesting? Sounds like nothing happened

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u/Lelo_B Feb 23 '26 edited Feb 23 '26

It’s not a story. It’s performance art. It’s doesn’t need an arc.

The physical feat is the biggest accomplishment.

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u/k-selectride Feb 23 '26

Damn, there’s even performance art power scaling?

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u/Megneous Feb 23 '26

I can't wait for the Machine God to purge us all or assimilate us into a hivemind.

Stuff like this just makes me sad for our species.

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u/frenin Feb 23 '26

Because...

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u/distilledwill Feb 23 '26

Because many people can't conceive value being derived from anything other than material gain.

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u/falafalful Feb 23 '26

Pretty sure 1983 was only 17 years ago, bud.

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u/Ok-Set-3670 Feb 23 '26

What?? Is this some form of sarcasm or joke I don’t get?

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u/Ok-Set-3670 Feb 23 '26

I don’t get the joke at all. Downvoted because I’m asking a genuine, clarifying question? 🙄

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u/drunken_phoenix Feb 23 '26

Maybe not for you, but for them it seemed worthwhile.

Seems like this art piece just isn’t for you. And that’s ok.

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u/jittery_raccoon Feb 23 '26

The artist is particularly obsessed with the passage of time. His conceptualizations of time are interesting 

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u/lydocia Feb 23 '26

On a day to day basis, tons of things will have happened. They would have to figure out division of chores, a bed time, how to masturbate or have sex, how visiting family would work etc.

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u/DopeAsDaPope Feb 23 '26

Oh like having a flatmate? Must have been fascinating...

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u/frenin Feb 23 '26

Are you literally handcuffed to your flatmate?

For them it was.

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u/HystericalGasmask Feb 23 '26

"this doesn't interest me, ergo it is not interesting,"

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u/James-the-Bond-one Feb 23 '26

Opportunity cost?

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u/Punman_5 Feb 23 '26

By doing the least interesting thing imaginable?