Woman lives like hamster

Attaboy, who co-edits my favorite art magazine Hi-Fructose, sent me this fun video of artist Sako Kojima who lived like a hamster in a storefront window for almost a week. According to Kojima's Web site, "This performance is so hard bacause sako was moving all day long as a hamster. quickly running, biting wood, paper and scratch wall. It continue about from 3 to 6 days. After the days sako come back human." Link

[#1 posted by DavidSilverberg , June 20, 2008 10:56 AM]

But where's the hamster wheel? Just imagine all the calories Sako could've lost.

[#2 posted by trr , June 20, 2008 11:04 AM]

I first misread the headline as "Woman likes live hamster", and saw her eating, so I thought she liked to eat live hamsters. Oh boy...

[#3 posted by shuandrew , June 20, 2008 11:20 AM]

Haha, I was wondering where the wheel was too. Nuts look nice.

[#4 posted by Anselm , June 20, 2008 11:43 AM]

And for my next trick, I will be living as an agouti in a middle school's vent system.

[#5 posted by ROSSINDETROIT , June 20, 2008 12:25 PM]

I want to live like a goat in a tree

[#6 posted by Takuan , June 20, 2008 12:37 PM]

elephant in forest

[#7 posted by Halloween Jack , June 20, 2008 12:48 PM]

Furverts are the new performance artists!

[#8 posted by Jardine , June 20, 2008 1:09 PM]

Moving all day long? Hamsters are nocturnal. She should be mostly sleeping during the day and running around at night. Unless someone bangs on her cage that is.

[#9 posted by Antinous , June 20, 2008 1:16 PM]

shuandrew,

No bloglink, please. That goes on your profile page.

[#10 posted by ultrasur1 , June 20, 2008 1:17 PM]

aye, for real though, that shit's just weird.

[#11 posted by museumoffred , June 20, 2008 1:52 PM]

i'm not sure what to think about this.
how do we know when we have too much free time?

[#12 posted by Takuan , June 20, 2008 2:03 PM]

when we make art

[#13 posted by airship , June 20, 2008 2:47 PM]

Once you've lived as a hamster, why would you want to come back human?

[#14 posted by echolocate chocolate , June 20, 2008 3:53 PM]

Too much free time is when you comment on blogs about how other people use their time.

Art happens when you have just the right amount of free time!

[#15 posted by nihilarian , June 20, 2008 6:45 PM]

joseph beuys she aint.

[#16 posted by Takuan , June 20, 2008 6:55 PM]

JJ Caucus then?

[#17 posted by eustace , June 21, 2008 8:59 AM]

Yeah, this is up to JJ's standards all right. But she would have had Mike in there with her.
Which answers Airship's question in #13 above, I think. If Sako Kojima had brought a boyfriend along...