Your dose of animal rights for the day...

[desolation_no]

"Artist" Adel Abessemed is having his show Don't Trust Me sponsored by the San Francisco Art Institute's Walter McBean Gallery. His videos show 6 animals (sheep, pig, ox, horse, goat, and baby deer) being killed by blows of a hammer. I researched this a little bit to make sure that the videos were not appropriated. They were, in fact, made by

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[sprightlyinside]

Oh that "art" is absolutely nauseating! How can he get away with posing these videos as art? Pulled from the web page you posted: "Do these incidents represent slaughter or sacrifice?"
Sacrifice? To what end? Are we living in Biblical times now?!!??

This is just disgusting. My e-mail is on its way to the gallery. Thanks for posting this!!

[rikosis]

Id send an e-mail to them but my spelling and grammer and intelligence are err dumb.

However thats rediculous, all he needs to do is start randomly setting things on fire and he sure is on his way to becoming a serial killer....
Asshole.

[hurrysundown]

While I think that it's really hard to accomplish anything once you start accusations - 'cause, obviously, people get offended...I don't really think I need to say that I completely, utterly, and entirely agree with you. Now I just have to figure out how to say it so that I don't sound like I'm willing to take a hammer to HIM. Even though I am.

[desolation_no]

I felt the bitterness was necessary. I tried not to lose my head and all substance in my email, but I wanted to make the point that in this country, we learn to tolerate and at least on a base level accept a lot of different viewpoints. There is a line though. A person's rights only go so far that they do not extinguish another's. Our tolerance of art (eeing as a lot of post-modern art is taking an increasingly social, cultural awareness route, often evoking controversy) should be the same. Something ceases to be art when it harms another being without consent. It is, at that point, merely sociopathy.

[hurrysundown]

Understood. But in my own experiences, a lot less gets accomplished once the accusations raise defenses. So even though I feel passionately and angry about it - because let me tell you, I do. I'd love to beat that son of a bitch's head in with a mallet. - I'm trying to think of a way to say "Look, I don't think this is right. At all." that gets the point across without me sounding...well, like I'm a ranting tree hugger because I don't want to devalue my point through the assumptions people can and will make about me. This isn't really attached to what you've said - it's something that I've realised I really need to work on when talking to people about anything debate-like.

[desolation_no]

And, in this case, I really wanted to offend those gallery owners. They KNEW this sort of reaction would come about from taking on a show like this, and they should be prepared to take it.

stars of stage and tube

[nada_brahma]

Brook we can be stars of stage and tube. You Raise valid points in a debate show format and I will continue with counter point. It will be a huge success because I am not Nick Allen.