[New-Poetry] POL: Prevent the “Artistic” Death of Another Innocent Animal

[TheOldMole]

I signed...trusting Amy that it's on the up and up. I googled the guy, 
and at least the story is true. And horrifying.

shin02143 at aol.com wrote:
> That is utterly cruel sadistic behavior. It is not art, it is murder.
>
> Richard
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: amy king <amyhappens at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Thu, 8 May 2008 1:34 pm
> Subject: [New-Poetry] POL: Prevent the “Artistic” Death of Another 
> Innocent Animal
>
> *THE STORY:*
> *
> *
> In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the 
> street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery and began starving him to 
> death.
> For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition 
> watched, emotionless, the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s 
> agony, until eventually he died.
>
> Does THIS sound like art to you?
>
> But this is not all… the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of Central 
> America decided that the ‘installation’ WAS actually art, so Guillermo 
> Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the 
> Biennial of 2008.
>
> *Let’s STOP HIM!!!!!    *Sign the petition:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html 
> <http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html>
>
> <http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html>
> Here is another petition that is 2 million signatures strong. Please 
> feel free to sign it as well:
> http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html 
> <http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html>
>
> <http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html>
> Please do it. It’s free of charge, there is no need to register, and 
> it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.
>
> AND, for those of you saying “This is all a hoax, etc,” here is a 
> direct quote FROM THE ‘ARTIST’ himself!:
> “I knew the dog died on the following day from lack of food. During 
> the inauguration, I knew that the dog was persecuted in the evening 
> between the houses of aluminum and cardboard in a district of Managua. 
> 5 children who helped to capture the dog received 10 bonds of córdobas 
> for their assistance. The name of the dog was Natividad, and I let him 
> die of hunger in the sight of everyone, as if the death of a poor dog 
> was a shameless media show in which nobody does anything but to 
> applaud or to watch disturbed. In the place that the dog was exposed 
> remain a metal cable and a cord. The dog was extremely ill and did not 
> want to eat, so in natural surroundings it would have died anyway; 
> thus they are all poor stray dogs: sooner or later they die or are 
> killed.”
>
> ~~~~
>
> To be fair (with lots of comments from Costa Ricans):
>
> In his defence, the artist has claimed that what he was attempting to 
> prove was that those who saw the suffering of the dog just walked on 
> by and that if it had been left on the street to die, no-one would 
> have even known of its existence.
>
> It has also been reported that the dog did not die but escaped, and 
> that it had been fed by Vargas and was only tied up during the gallery 
> opening times. It has not been possible to confirm this.
>
> The Managua exhibition attracted worldwide attention and many people 
> believe it to have been an act of cruelty rather than art. A petition 
> has been started in an attempt to prevent Habacuc’s involvement in the 
> 2008 Biennial and from repeating the spectacle.
>
> If you would like to sign the petition, visit: 
> http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
> –from * Artist Guillermo Vargas - Habacuc 
> <http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/6831.html>*
>  
> _______
>
>
>
> http://www.amyking.org
>
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