MaiLuk Posted August 21, 2006 Report Share Posted August 21, 2006 Bad career choices: naked with a dead pig Mon Aug 21, 8:30 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - Animal rights activists have described as "sick" a live art performance involving a naked woman cradling a dead pig for four hours. Kira O'Reilly's show, alled "Inthewrongplaceness" will be performed at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Penzance, southwest England, later Friday. James Green, the gallery's director, defended the show, saying that the audience would be controlled, with one person at a time watching the performance for up to 10 minutes each. "In terms of the gallery's view, we feel very strongly that we should provide audiences in the region with opportunities to see the kind of works that they have to go to London to experience," he told Reuters He added that the gallery "had not received a single direct complaint" about the planned show, one of several live performances making up the Tract live art program. But a spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) called the performance "sick." "As Miss O'Reilly seems to depend on the shock of using a murdered pig as a prop, perhaps lacking the talent to make it as a proper artist, may we suggest she take up a day job instead to pay the bills," she said. "Cruelty is not entertainment." On the gallery's Web site (www.newlynartgallery.co.uk), O'Reilly calls the performance "a slow crushing dance with a pig for one person at a time." "The work left me with an undercurrent of pigginess, unexpected fantasies of mergence and interspecies metamorphoses began to flicker into my consciousness." Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Hi, Why the fuck is something like this even allowed? And even worse, why is tax-payers money spend on grants for 'artists' like this? Utterly fucked up. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Like it's CONCEPTUAL ART man, so it's like groovy, except all conceptual artists don't use the word grovvy, like they say "Post post modernist" Like WOW man! DOG - Shaking head at crap art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaiLuk Posted August 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 More importantly: Did the pig's family get a part of the grant? Was the pig properly butchered and eaten after the 4 hour show? Did the health department have an objection to the naked lady rubbing her body on a dead animal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Himmaparn Posted August 22, 2006 Report Share Posted August 22, 2006 Is the pig naked too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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