This Facebook group created by Emily Perry of Jackson, MS keeps popping up on my mini-feed and I finally decided to check it out and of course signed both petitions.
The group is a plead to stop the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc from repeating his art exhibition in 2007 which consisted of taking a stray dog from the street, tying the dog up in an art gallery and letting it starve to death without food or water while on display for visitors to watch.
The prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of Central America decided that the 'installation' WAS actually art and has invited Habacuc to repeat the display for the Biennial of 2008.
The guy is pretty sick and is basically up there with Yale Art major Aliza Shvarts. Hubacuc's defense in his 'work' is the idea that the stray dog would have died on his own and no one would have known the existence of the dog. Hey fucktard, um there's such a thing as humility when you die. I doubt the dog would have preferred fame over starving to death for the fancy of heartless aristocrats.
Last week I learned on Eli Stone (best show that is on right now, check it out here) that the Jewish religion teaches "to save a life is to save the world" by the woman who played a rabbi...I think the same idea can be extended to animals.
There are two petitions to sign to prevent this tragedy from happening again. Please sign them--they seriously take two seconds. Think of it this way--What if your dog ran away and someone decided your Snookums was the perfect stray for their next art exhibit? Would you want your dog to suffer the same fate?
Yea, that's what I figured. Sign the petitions.
2 comments:
how could anyone possibly be cold enough to do this?
Has anyone contacted the artist??? :-( I had read that the dog didnt die and the whole thing was staged to make the point that none of us care unless its shoved in our faces - but I can't find anything from the author to explain himself .....the whole thing stinks either way - but does make you think - I mean what are we doing about the millions of stray starving dogs around the world...
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