Gerda Fischbach http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/people?personen_id=1516014703778 This page is full of extreme speciesist art http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/people/role/team http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/activities FLESH First of all, the meat was needed for isolating primary animal cells. Once the animal tissue had been swabbed with ethanol, a tiny section was removed and immersed again in ethanol. http://artscience.uni-ak.ac.at/activities/bioart_ TAXIDERMY “Things that Talk“ – at the Naturhistorisches Museum…Continue readingKunst und Speziesismus: Artscience
Category: Animalistic Issue
Speciesism in art is for a big part taxidermy in art This site writes: “Well they are dead anyway” … http://www.ravishingbeasts.com/taxidermy-artists/ But they exactly use the dead bodies of nonhuman animals because these animals obviously have lived before. Using a dead body is a means to gain possession in a definatory way over the de…Continue readingobjectification and taxidermy
Speciesism and some form of aesthetics, they seem to inevitably go together. This might be so because aesthetics can help give an excuse to prolong a wrong stance that one has taken, a wrong stance that one is acting up to and aware of doing so. Speciesism comprises the conscious element of violence and active…Continue readingA short note about speciesism and aesthetics
stop press: 28 February 2012 – Slaughtering Chickens For “Art” Cancelled in Lawrence, Kansas! read more if you follow this link. Killing nonhuman animals as “art”. Yet another patho… case doing just that. No comment, yet again it speaks for its own state of pathology. Amber Hansen is to be found at: http://vimeo.com/user5118234 and http://www.amberhansen.com/home.html,…Continue readingGentle speciesism?
Does being a speciesist make someone REAL REAL REAL REAL special? And artists do usually want to be very special to stick out, to make themselves a name, create themselves fame, etc. No actually no, being a speciesist doesn’t make you special in the arts scene unfortunately, but still in particular young artist women who…Continue readingDoes being a speciesist make someone special?