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> pearl wrote:
> > "Rudy Canoza" <pipes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> pearl wrote:
> >>> "Rudy Canoza" <pipes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> pearl wrote:
> >>>>> http://ga0.org/campaign/sfai?rk=jpaSdSS1ls6AE
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> Ha ha ha ha ha! This is great!
> >>>>
> >>>> First, the "ar" weenies just /love/ it when other
> >>>> inflammatory and intentionally offensive "art" comes
> >>> False.
> >> No, true. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
> >
> > Nothing about ARAs.
>
> "aras" are cultural/moral-relativist leftists. They
> applaud that kind of art, especially if it offends
That's your view. I think it's offensive, period.
> those they view as complacent bourgeoisie. But when
> their sensibilities are offended, then they become
> typically small-minded cultural fascists looking to
> impose censor****p.
'The "Art" of Animal Cruelty
Walk into the Walter and McBean Galleries in San Francisco's
posh Russian Hill neighborhood, and you may be shocked to see
what p***** for contem****ary "art" these days. Six televisions
display video images of six different animals -- a doe, a goat,
a horse, an ox, a pig, and a sheep -- being bludgeoned to death
with a large sledgehammer by "artist" Adel Abdessemed of Paris.
Entitled "Don't Trust Me," this sick exhibit is Abdessemed's and
the Institute's self-serving attempt to pass off the brutal abuse and
killing of animals as legitimate artistic creation.
What such "artists" and their patrons overlook is that animals are
living beings who feel and suffer just like we humans -- and we
are no more justified in taking their lives at will than we have the
right to kill another person. Such abuse of animals may elicit horror
and disgust in viewers, but that does not qualify it as art. Far from it
-- in fact, "Don't Trust Me" represents the very worst impulses of
the human imagination.
It takes no artistic talent or ability to kill animals, and Abdessemed
should have never been given a venue for his sickening "work" in
the first place. To their great discredit, the San Francisco Art
Institute agreed to sponsor this exhibit, lending it an air of
credibility,
but what makes matters worse are the obscene rationalizations this
venerable institution of learning and culture offers in defense of the
sleazy snuff films. These include pedantic claims that such killings
"regularly take place...in the real world, on a regular basis," and that
the installation "(makes) typical moral and cultural constraints seem
beside the point."
Such statements betray not only a lack of compassion and basic
human decency, but also a fundamental confusion of true artistic
creation with the destruction of life. Abdessemed's work is of no
artistic value, and rather than raise people's consciousness about the
cruelties committed against animals every day, it will encourage them
to accept animal abuse as a way of gaining attention and notoriety.
To call someone who murders animals an "artist" is an insult to every
real artist who refuses to rely on violence and shallow, sensationalistic
gimmicks to express his or her vision. While the work of such
murderers will surely not endure, their antics may encourage and incite
others to torture and kill animals, so it is crucial that people of
conscience voice our outrage over this monstrous display of cruelty.
Tell San Francisco Art Institute to remove snuff video exhibit
from gallery http://ga0.org/campaign/sfai?rk=jpaSdSS1ls6AE
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