art me arse! (2 Viewers)

[oh shit]

it's good to see that benthamite utilitarianism is alive and well in ireland's leading anarchist community

 

[Janer]

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[GO]

Jazes Christ what a gee bag.

 

[therealjohnny]

it's good to see that benthamite utilitarianism is alive and well in ireland's leading anarchist community

yes

benthamite

 

[Willie Willions]

it's good to see that benthamite utilitarianism is alive and well in ireland's leading anarchist community

Yes

leading anarchist community.

 

[Shorty]

Well, that is true. There is definitively more awareness of animal cruelty. But i still struggle to consider leaving a dog, even if a street-dog without an owner, to starve as 'art'. I really can't understand it.

I really can't understand animal rights types videoing a dog starving to death to use as propaganda instead of "liberating" it. Must be the contradictions and inconsistencies ...
I mean art galleries are known for their beefy security guards. A petition after the fact, wow.

 

[Shorty]

it's good to see that benthamite utilitarianism is alive and well in ireland's leading anarchist community

Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

 

[Cormcolash]

I always thought animal cruelty was a very protestant thing.

 

[Corm]

in conclusion: people who do evil things are actually doing a public service by showing everyone else how not to be cunts.
let's all go and video ourselves abusing vulnerable people and creatures so everyone else will realise it's not cool.

Just a joke or an enthusiastic missing of the point?

That's a very reactionary response, my point is that I wouldn't see this in such absolute terms as others might...yes, it's horrible, but just because someone makes a show of it, does that make it any more horrible or objectionable than similar acts of cruelty that go unrecorded?

 

[therealjohnny]

.yes, it's horrible, but just because someone makes a show of it, does that make it any more horrible or objectionable than similar acts of cruelty that go unrecorded?

yes

 

[subbuteo !]

I really can't understand animal rights types videoing a dog starving to death to use as propaganda instead of "liberating" it. Must be the contradictions and inconsistencies ...
I mean art galleries are known for their beefy security guards. A petition after the fact, wow.

im guessing the footage was from a recording of the instulation by the artist or someone connested to the gallery as a documentation of the "piece".i'd say anyone of the animals rights type wouldn't have just stood by.unfortunatley id say most people who signed the petition found out after the fact...what would you like me to burn a bin or something.

 

[the strange guy]

I'd love it if you burned a bin.

 

[subbuteo !]

I'd love it if you burned a bin.

consider it done!

 

[the strange guy]

Fuck that bin.

 

[nooleen]

yes, it's horrible, but just because someone makes a show of it, does that make it any more horrible or objectionable than similar acts of cruelty that go unrecorded?

he tied it there.

 

[nooleen]

PS: i wish people would stop misusing the word 'reactionary'.

www.dictionary.com.

 

[Shorty]

August 16th 2007.
The photos look like they were taken as documentary evidence, at least that's how it appears to me, I could be wrong.

There's a whole other discussion in here about "art", galleries, marketing, contemporary art,conceptual art, the cod theorising behind so much of it, etc. but for me it's just that it would have been so easy to "do something" about it. *shrug*

P.S. Maybe that couple with the guy in the pink shirt set a bin on fire, though I don't see what burning bins have to do with anything, you're weird!

 

[subbuteo !]

August 16th 2007.

you're weird!

ill burn your biscuits for saying that!

 

[JenFast]

byrnoes you burn that bin!
ladies, burn your bra's!

 

[therealjohnny]

PS: i wish people would stop misusing the word 'reactionary'.

www.dictionary.com.

yeah it's so burgeois