So postmodern art doesn’t ask the question “is this art” or “is this not art”, postmodern art asks “did the creator intend for this to be art?”

The fact that this is posted here means that the answer is “Yes”. Postmodern art would consider this gif to be art.

Unfortunately, postmodernism has changed the bar, not raised it or lowered it, to “is this ‘good’ art?” When anything can be art based on whether or not it is intended to be art, anything can be granted the art tag. Art is no longer a pedigree, but a category. It is no longer a discriminator of what is ‘good’ vs what is ‘base’ or what is ‘quality’ vs what is ‘vulgar’, but art now means ‘is this thing created to be art?’

So yeah, this is created to be art, it is art, and we can consider it on its artistic merits.

Based on the context that this piece of art was created in, it doesn’t appear to be any criticism of current artistic movements, it doesn’t appear to extrapolate on any blooming artistic ideas, instead it appears to be someone taking the base motion of a fan, a balloon, and a knife, and attributing artistic merit to it.

So overall, yes, this is Art, but unfortunately it is barely-novel, boring, intellectually unchallenging, and base Art that doesn’t add to the current conversation and instead intends to make a popular spectacle of itself.