The decade was giving way to personal computers and increasingly sophisticated gadgets. Blue Man BeginningsĬhris Wink and Matt Goldman, friends since grade school, spent time in the mid-1980s thinking about how to explore modernism and technology in performance. Instead, it turned out to be the emergence of an entertainment franchise based on the childlike curiosity of three mute, earless artists who met at the intersection of avant-garde and the mainstream: Blue Man Group. When the footage aired on the channel, it was probably dismissed as MTV-which was known for embracing the counterculture-covering a peculiar piece of performance art. If that weren’t indication enough that the services were biting and satirical, one look at the “mourners” would be: All nine of them were painted blue. It was not for any recently departed rock star, but for the decade itself-a solemn procession held in Central Park that included a Rambo doll being set ablaze, all to bid goodbye to the excess of the era.
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