The Leipziger artist Rigo Schmidt seems to know how to combine speciesism with biological racism in the unhidden form. Through the reinforcing effect of objectifying an object by depicting it, an idea is being “worked out” and voluntarily and involuntarily revealed about a supposed interrelation of “Man”, “Animal”, and “Nature”. The concept of this triangle…Continue readingwith an anthropological message
Category: Animalistic Issue
Fresh water under what old bridge? I’ve somehow stumbled across a video by the British band “the Prodigy” that gives me the creeps. The song is called “Baby’s got a Temper” and it displays cows crammed into some space where the band themselves sing on a stage and some nude young ladies are “forced” by…Continue readingvisual rhetorics and its traps
The elitist attitude of the “arts industry” has so far tended to ignore so called public sentiment, unless it fits their interest. I just learned about the case of the starving dog who was being exhibited, and I just signed the petition linked on this blog: http://guillermohabacucvargas.blogspot.com/ The nutcase artist who brought the dog into…Continue readingMore than 2 million signatures
Arts and Necrophilia: CATERINA PURDY MOHN, exhibited a (amongst others) by the Transition Gallery, East London and StuArt Gallery, Siantiago Chile, accordning to Saatchi and Saatchi http://www.transbuddha.com/content/caterina-purdy/ http://www.last.fm/music/Purdy+Rocks Purdy Rocks (her techono type of music) http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=109868701 http://www.portaldearte.cl/autores/purdy1.htm It’s pretty easy to impress anybody or maybe especially the mainstream arts scene with anything super necrophile. This…Continue readingVive la Biophilia — They can by no means negate the dignity of life!!
Pesi Girsch aestheticises the corpses of dead animals on some of her photography. http://members.tripod.com/pesi_girsch/stillalife.htm (accessed 23rd April 08 ) On her bio she portrays herself with a baby kitten nevertheless: http://members.tripod.com/pesi_girsch/bio.htm (accessed 23rd April 08 ), so one can assume that she sees some qualitative difference between being amongst the living or being amongst the…Continue readingPesi Girsch’s “Nature Morte”