Grown Men Play Huge Saw- But is it art?

I worked at the Frye Art museum last week, on a video piece for Buster Simpson, a well known Northwest abstract artist. Buster was great, a fine person with a good sense of humor. He claimed to have been shocked that a conservative museum such as the Frye would do a retrospective on him, a sort of provocateur of the 1970's until now. We shot two musicians playing the giant industrial saw blade, bent into a mobius strip and painted with the phrase "Carbon andEarth builds to decay back into ..." repeating endlessly. The music, was very abstract, not jarring or noise but in the end it was like all saw music sort of just a novelty. Once again proving, like my day recently where in we recorded Bill Gates reading the Gettysburg Address, that my job is strange and surreal.