Bodily Fluids: An Applied "Is that Art?" Question
Posted: October 26th, 2004, 11:19 pm
Heard on the evening news a couple months ago about someone sending a series of pieces of artwork to a number of big name museums. Don't recall exactly what they were depicting but in any case they arrived anonymously with a card saying that the artist had used his own semen mixed in with the paint as a symbolic tribute to the power of the biological sciences. not clear whether he really did use semen in the painting. obviously, the man is a genius, a sick genius no doubt. (i said 'man' but do we even know if it was a man? if the artist were a female feminist, it'd be doubly ingenius because ironic.) the news people called it terrorism and the critics probably agreed. and it is of course a public health hazard if bodily fluids are used as an artistic mediun, but damn if that doesn't have a kind of dadaist-surrealist charm to it?!
(Haven't seen any follow up on this story but if anybody has seen further stories, please post the links.)
(Haven't seen any follow up on this story but if anybody has seen further stories, please post the links.)