What are your feelings about this performance art group?

[DKeys]

http://improveverywhere.com/

I have conflicting feelings about the work that they do. While I appreciate the conceptual aspect of it, I think you get into dangerous territory when you are playing with people's personal space

What do you think?

[Jim SantAmour]

Perhaps the REAL ART is in the realization of how a small group of people (in this case the organizers of this event - extrapolating to a dictatorship...or even an elected government...) can EASILY manipulate the masses to:

1) gather for a pre-orchestrated rally at a predetermined time and place.

2) dress in a "uniform" (albeit tourist wear may not be considered a uniform...or is it?) or at least uniformly.

and to

3) act in a certain manner.

After all, art has a few main purposes - to please the viewer/participant, to disturb the viewer/participant OR to make the viewer/participant think and reflect. 

I think this sort of PERFORMANCE ART satisfies all of those.

[DKeys]

I think the stuff they do is hilarious, but I think encouraging any kind of mob mentality is dangerous

[Alicia Starr]

Seems like a dictatorship experience: a person who tells people what to do in an autocratic way or who determines behavior in a particular sphere. Don't we have enough of that already? Did I miss the point DK?