This doesn't necessarily have to do with design. But it definitely falls under the category of advocacy of "art". This story has been going around on the net and I just needed to share it somewhere. If you're an animal lover, beware, cuz this story is pretty sick:
In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.
For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.
Does it look like art to you?
But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.
It takes a second to help put a stop to animal abuse. Sign the petetion to stop this asshole by going to http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
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if anyone cares, he had this to say:
"The purpose of the work was not to cause any type of infliction on the poor, innocent creature, but rather to illustrate a point. In my home city of San Jose, Costa Rica, tens of thousands of stray dogs starve and die of illness each year in the streets and no one pays them a second thought."
the first part of that was way disingenuous, but on a much smaller scale than, i don't know, war or state-engineered famine.
privileged people don't want to know. they don't want to do anything about it, but they don't want to know. i don't know any seriously non-privileged people, but i bet they don't have as much cognitive dissonance about what goes on.
charities use the images of starving children to try to compel you to do something about hunger. just because the kids aren't chained up in a building close to your house doesn't mean they're not somewhere.
sorry to be a downer again. see to me, it's not depressing to point out that a situation is wrong. it's way more depressing to look at a state of affairs and be told "This is perfectly okay until we decide to change it or someone forces you to consider it, at which point whatever someone in power decides to do will then be perfectly okay and would have been appropriate all along."
i tend to think that if you care, it's better to do something than to indignantly tell someone else to do something.
i heard about this one a little while ago. it pissed me off. apparently hes going to do it again at the same gallery.
another questionable art piece, which was done by a senior at yale, involved her artificially inseminating herself then taking herbal treatments to induce menstrual bleeding ie aborting the possible fetus. yale has issued a statement that is a hoax of performance art, the girl said it is true, so who knows.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/storymin.html
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