View Full Version : Dying dog = art?
Screeny
10-15-2007, 07:22 PM
I came across this story today which pushes the definition of 'art' way beyond it's already blurred boundaries. I've also read some bullshit rationales for 'art' in my time but his has got to be the most pathetic, contrived and altogether tenuous excuse for justifying cruelty that I've ever had the misfortune to read.
Decide for yourselves: http://american-european.net/blogs/costa-rica-news/2007/10/04/dead-dog-but-is-it-art/
Fred Duran
10-15-2007, 07:27 PM
What a sick fuck. And he did it as a tribute to some burglar that was killed by two dogs guarding the house that he tried to break into. What the hell kind of reason is that?
It is disgusting, and the burglar thing is ridiculous, but he does have a point: if he hadn't brought the dog inside an art gallery, and it had just been left to die on the street, no one would have batted an eye.
spider
10-15-2007, 07:37 PM
The importance to me is the hypocracy of the people where an animal is the focus of attention where people come to see art but not when it’s in the street starving to death.”
“The same thing happened with poor Natividad Canda. The people sympathized with him only after he was dead,” the artist added.
He makes some good points, just seems to have flawed methods.
I've never really been for using the deceased or parts of your own body (blood paintings? gimme a break) for art, however much it's acceptible in some countries.
Screeny
10-15-2007, 07:41 PM
Well that may or may not be the case - there are many other ways in which he could highlight the 'hypocracy of the human condition' without resorting to public cruelty. I also came across some additional bits of info on this which pretty much negate his so-called rationale; specifically his instruction that the dog (now actively put on public spectacle) not be given water or food - he also paid local children to chase the dog around the salon to accelerate the whole process.
The key point is that once he bought the dog into the salon, his rationale fell to pieces and he is just as guilty of the same hypocracy that he so smugly charges the rest of us with.
Screeny
10-15-2007, 07:48 PM
He makes some good points, just seems to have flawed methods.
Yeah - I've also heard people say that about Hitler.
Good points? How are they 'good points'? They are nothing more than banal observations on human behaviour that he has adopted to justify his 'jump on the shock-art' bandwagon.
Buckyrig
10-15-2007, 07:52 PM
Yeah - I've also heard people say that about Hitler.
Hitler was into animal rights. He wouldn't have done this.
Well, it's true. :laugh:
I'll be somewhat amused to see how many more people are inspired into a frenzy of typing by this story than by this (http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116690)
Screeny
10-15-2007, 07:56 PM
I'll be somewhat amused to see how many more people are inspired into a frenzy of typing by this story than by this (http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=116690)
It's the hypocracy of the human condition...keep up, woman! :p
It's the hypocracy of the human condition...keep up, woman! :p
Shush, hypocrat!
Buckyrig
10-15-2007, 08:01 PM
:sure:
Wayne Drake
10-15-2007, 08:46 PM
Dogs are to be loved and protected, same goes for all animals. As for humans, well it's in their nature to destroy each other. poor bastards.
jakebilbao
10-16-2007, 01:08 PM
boy, i'd love to chain this sick fuck to a post and not give him food and water, and have dogs bite at his balls. :mad:
Screeny
10-16-2007, 02:42 PM
boy, i'd love to chain this sick fuck to a post and not give him food and water, and have dogs bite at his balls. :mad:
Yeah! We could call it 'The hypocracy of the canine condition' :w00t:
Raven
10-16-2007, 02:54 PM
What a sick fuck. And he did it as a tribute to some burglar that was killed by two dogs guarding the house that he tried to break into. What the hell kind of reason is that?
I completely agree with this statement. Sick bastard.
Mic. Gee
11-08-2007, 10:17 PM
So uh, what about the person who made art out of his feces?
Does he get the same punishment too?
Mike225
11-08-2007, 10:29 PM
So uh, what about the person who made art out of his feces?
Does he get the same punishment too?I didn't read the article..was the punishment Hepatitis?
Mic. Gee
11-26-2007, 09:43 PM
I thought he was given a Dirty Sanchez.
rummblestrips
11-26-2007, 10:46 PM
So uh, what about the person who made art out of his feces?
Does he get the same punishment too?
There's no comparison.
Shit is shit
A Dog is a living being.
That guy should be chained up and left to rot.
A Dog is a living being.
That guy should be chained up and left to rot.
So people cease to be a living being when they hurt another living being?
Anyone swat any flys today? Report yourself to Gitmo immediately.
Flies don't have eyebrows, FA. That means they don't have feelings. :yawn:
rummblestrips
11-27-2007, 11:26 AM
So people cease to be a living being when they hurt another living being?
Anyone swat any flys today? Report yourself to Gitmo immediately.
Why yes!
It was like.. like you read my mind
wow...
Mic. Gee
12-07-2007, 01:03 PM
There's no comparison.
A dog is is a human being.
That guy should be chained up and left to rot.
A crime against art is crime against art. What both of those incidences were, were art crimes.
Art crimes.
Do you understand?
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