nesting instincts

Dash Snow is a notorious "artist" on the New York scene, who makes what are called "hamster nests." To quote New York Magazine, "to make a Hamster’s Nest, Snow [and company] shred up 30 to 50 phone books, yank around all the blankets and drapes, turn on the taps, take off their clothes, and do drugs—mushrooms, coke, ecstasy—until they feel like hamsters." This does not satisfy my definition of art in any sense of the word. My room right now, for instance, looks pretty post-apocolyptic, but I'm just calling it a mess.