Reply With QuoteSo I guess my one man woodchipper show to draw attention to the plight of *** workers is off?
Germany: Artist banned from strangling puppies in live performance
It's about time that we unfuck our societies.Artist banned from strangling puppies
A German artist who planned to strangle two puppies to death on stage in a Berlin theatre has been told that highlighting the plight of sled dogs in Alaska is not a good enough reason to kill the dogs.
The performance, entitled "Death as Metamorphosis," was to take place next week in a small theatre in the Spandau district of Berlin. Accompanied by funeral music and a gong, the artist was going to strangle two puppies with cable ties after a brief meditation.
According to a report in the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper, the provocative piece was meant to highlight the plight of sled dogs in Alaska and hunting dogs in Spain, which are said to be killed in the same way once they can no longer work.
The artist's planned performance was influenced by "traditional Thai art forms," the Express newspaper reported.
The Berlin administrative court stopped the show from going ahead on Friday, saying that animal protection laws forbid an animal from being harmed in any way in a show. The artist had argued that Germany's constitution "unconditionally guarantees artistic freedom."
The report appeared in the same week as a controversial project by two art students at Berlin's University of the Arts (UdK). Students Iman Rezai and Rouven Materne are threatening to guillotine a sheep on camera, depending on the results of an online vote.
The experiment is meant to stimulate debate on humanity and democracy. Materne said the guillotine was chosen because "it represents a society that wants to give its cruelties the appearance of humanity."
According to a report in Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper, the website registered 190,000 "No" votes and 120,000 "Yes" votes in six days.
"The anonymity of the internet lures the perversity out of some people," the 23-year-old explained. The artists are planning to ignore the protests and reveal the results of the vote in an exhibition in mid-May.
So I guess my one man woodchipper show to draw attention to the plight of *** workers is off?
What a sick person.
So, are you for or against puppy-killing?Originally Posted by muck
What a dip****.
I'm tired of artists who don't have any skills and just throw **** on the wall and call it art
x2. ^^^^^^^^
He seem to be begging for an asswhopping.
Sick to the core.
This so-called artist reminds me of a artist here in Finland, who killed a cat as a performance. Ugh, yuck.
Last edited by Grey Stoat; 04-27-2012 at 06:13 PM.
Why she don't want to strangle herself for showing her performance "Death as Metamorphosis" ?
Last edited by johanness; 04-27-2012 at 06:31 PM. Reason: spelling
I'm pround to say that we did the whole goldfish in blenders installation more than ten years ago in Denmark.
Can we kill an "artist" and call it art?
I wonder why this is even discussed. It would never be allowed anyway as it is against the law which the "artist" surely knew.
So he was never in danger to actually have to follow through with this and got free publicity for nothing.
So presumably the court thinks there does exist a "good enough" reason to strangle puppies for art. This just isn't it? Frankly, that is more disturbing.not a good enough reason to kill the dogs.
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