yeah but i guess thats part of the point right? that theyre not doing actual damage but are explicitly threatening that they could. and western art is seen as such a sacred thing that even that threat is getting attention and pissing people off kinda like if they actually did do damage

as a perhaps imperfect analogy, protest marches back in the day carried a similar explicit threat - theres a bunch of us here peacefully marching for now, but we could be doing something less peaceful in the streets if you ignore us. theyve long since been neutered of course, and theyre easily ignored now because everyone in power knows that a lib protest march now is never going to actually follow through with any sort of escalation any more. i think a new kind of action like this art thing carries some new potential threat of escalation to actual damage (or at least it cant be entirely ruled out for now) that perhaps might give some people a bit of pause?

but yeah the gluing hands thing seems pretty lib