visual rhetorics and its traps

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

More than 2 million signatures

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

Vive la Biophilia — They can by no means negate the dignity of life!!

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’s “Nature Morte”

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”

Being a swine too

Who cares about what life? Nonhuman animal life becoming a part of yet another supposedly ethical environmental arts project. Insa Winkler: The Acorn Pig … Growing and growing up http://www.insawinkler.de/files/index_E.php?id=98 Can one really underlie nohuman animal life – or (might aswell) human life – the understanding of ethics and of arts that anybody might hold…Continue readingBeing a swine too