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

Thu May 8 14:58:09 EDT 2008

It's appalling to see a typical gallery crowd milling around, holding drinks and presumably having a little nosh with this distressed animal in their presence. I had heard about this case but this was first time I'd seen pictures of it.

There has been much 'self-multilation' among certain 'art geeks' (in the carney sense of the word geek). I guess that got old.
Finnegan

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From: browning <browning at splitthisrock.org>
Sent: Thu, 8 May 2008 2:08 pm
Subject: RE: [New-Poetry] POL: Prevent the "Artistic" Death of Another Innocent Animal

See further explication of this case here: http://www.hoax-slayer.com/starving-dog-art.shtml

Sounds as if the right action has been taken to prevent further abuse.

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From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu [mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of shin02143 at aol.com
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 1:48 PM
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Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] POL: Prevent the “Artistic” Death of Another Innocent Animal

That is utterly cruel sadistic behavior. It is not art, it is murder.

Richard

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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

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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