f*ed up "artist"
Posted by pranabelly on Nov 06, 2007 · Member since Mar 2007 · 110 posts
Killed a stray dog in a gallery and called it "art"
This is all over the internet. Just a few links:
http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/
The petition:
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from the Snopes article:
"The artist's point was to highlight the hypocrisy demonstrated by people making an apparently sick and ill-fed dog the center of attention when it was presented as an art exhibit, even though many of them would ignore the same dog if they encountered it roaming the streets.)
...the gallery's director asserted that the dog was in fact well-fed, and that it had not died (of starvation or any other cause) but had escaped from the gallery during the night."
IF this is, in fact, the case, I think it's a great piece of interactive/installation/performance art.
if not, well, this guy is a heartless dickwad for actually being the cause of the dog's suffering.
it'd be like if one of us stuffed a sick, maimed chicken into a tiny cage and put it on display to show the atrocities of factory farms...perhaps we could still call it "art," but it'd certainly be inhumane, unnecessary, and hypocritical of the artist to do the very thing they're trying to protest.
I really do hope this is fake. I mean, I just can't believe that NO ONE working in the gallery would have given the dog some food when the show wasn't open....even if one guy is sick enough to do that, surely the other people who helped put it all in motion couldn't be as cruel...
The dog does look very thin, however, if the first part of the story is true (the dog was a stray brought to the artists), then it would make sense that it would be very thin for some time, even with proper feeding. I sincerely hope the artist was making a point about animal cruelty while also rescuing a stray dog.
i hope this isn't true :'(. i just got very angry >:(.
i really hope it's not true too. but realistically if an animal is that underfed and weak would it have the energy to 'escape' the gallery? i could see them trying to cover their asses with that story.
Yeah I hope this IS NOT TRUE...soooo f**ked up if it is >:(
Thanks for the translation, What Day Is It. I really can't think straight when I get that pissed.
Well, fake or not, the petition is getting signed:
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