Excuse me, is this a work of art?

http://www.youtube.com/v/V3Nha7gHGqQ

Found this video (by Ana Velez) via the Wooster Collective feed… it does a great job at poking fun at and underscoring the absurdity of modern, Dadaist, avant-garde art. This video brought to mind Marcel Duchamp and his idea that:

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

This idea certainly extends beyond the world of Art and can encompass any creative act… right now I am especially thinking of Roland Barthes and his notions on the death of the author.