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

[amy king]

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

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

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.”

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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
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