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Naked performance with dead pig branded "sick" Fri Aug 18, 9:16 AM ET
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, called "Inthewrongplaceness" will be performed at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Penzance, southwest England, later on 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 programme.
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."
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« Reply #1 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 7:18pm » |
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I saw the news article about that too. I'm severly lacking in art education but I at least can tell the difference between one of the great masters and a fuzzy picture of Elvis. That nekkid pig dancing is a display of severe lack of any form of talent disguised as artistic license and hidden behind freedom of speach. It's crap pure and simple.
Very few artists have the talent to push the envelope and make it work. That person ain't got it!
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« Reply #2 on: Aug 18th, 2006, 7:23pm » |
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on Aug 18th, 2006, 6:05pm, Melissa wrote:| a naked woman cradling a dead pig for four hours. |
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Jonny. Now is that nice?
ok, it's funny. But is it nice?
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Chewy's a pig ??? .........I see dead pigs Pam 
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As an Englishman, I must say that only in modern day England do we have a certain breed of 'Dick Heads' art lovers who think anything freaky is 'in' . -----------------------Cheers ROY
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I did get into the link without computer freezing up, but I couldn't find the story.
So, based on the 1st post here, I'll just say dead pigs don't bother me - I love bacon. But that is the extent of a relationship i'd want with the pig.
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I fail to see the art in this, I find it offensive in the extreme to have this compared to something that requires talent or skill or even just imagination.. stupid twerp!
BTW Jonny.. you little shit!
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I'm tellin' ya, the chick is psychotic... Call the guys in the white suits...
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on Aug 18th, 2006, 7:18pm, Paul98 wrote:| I saw the news article about that too. I'm severly lacking in art education but I at least can tell the difference between one of the great masters and a fuzzy picture of Elvis. That nekkid pig dancing is a display of severe lack of any form of talent disguised as artistic license and hidden behind freedom of speach. It's crap pure and simple. |
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I actually DO have an art education and it's crap to me, too!
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on Aug 18th, 2006, 7:24pm, Margi wrote:Jonny. Now is that nice?
ok, it's funny. But is it nice? |
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