the YES!

oh wow, i would have to say this was quite an impressive display to see two men completely fool big corporation type meetings and yet they receive little to no negative response, continuing what they are doing till who knows when?! I dont know how they do it! it was a different from assignment 6 --- the re contextualization--- in that it was more of a re-routing of context to a different source, which then tweaked it to pretty much say the same thing, but in a way that they were trying to prove a point. these big corporations use meetings and conferences to share their new ideas, but it would seem that the presentations are just a formality. This is shown by the difference in the responses of the two groups they YES men presented to. The first was the actual business people, stiff in there suits waiting for the coffee break. they sat and calmly listened while the men presented their "findings" from their "research" . they didnt even care! it wasnt until the one guy stripped off his clothes that they got a reaction out of them. true, it may be out of shock that the mature business audience may have been embarrassed to a state of silence. But there was a complete switch when they presented to the students something of a different matter. They talked about McDonalds and hit on poverty in 3rd world countries, commenting on the fact that they recieve our leftovers anyways, so whats so bad about sending them our crap? The students were outraged!! I bet they didnt think it was real at first, but still they actively engaged in a brutal debate asking tons of questions, tryin to tear apart the WTO "representaion". I found it interesting the way it is fake and yet real at the same time. Its almost tricking the public for a genuine response as some sort of giant social commentary....fabulous.