Man starves dog to death and calls it "art"

[Jecht]

http://www.popgive.com/2008/03/since...-death-is.html

A so called artists by the name Guillermo Habacuc Vargas with the help of 2 children, who he paid, caught a dog on the street. He tied the dog in his exhibition gallery so people could see it starve to death. He told everyone not to feed this dog. He calls himself an artist. After suffering for a few days dog died in the gallery.


The sickness doesn't stop there. In that event he was chosen to represent his country in the “Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008″.

There's a petition to boycott his exposition if you want to join go here www.petitiononline.com/13031953/petition.html

WTF is wrong with people??

[TheGodfather]

Was his last name Vick?

[quickdodge®]

Was his last name Vick?

Can you not fuccing read? It states plain as day, in plain Spanish, that his last name is Vargas.......hmmm........which, coincidently is Spanish for Vic......oh my GOD!!!

Miguel Vargas!

Later, QD.

[autumnk5]

Can you not fuccing read? It states plain as day, in plain Spanish, that his last name is Vargas.......hmmm........which, coincidently is Spanish for Vic......oh my GOD!!!

Miguel Vargas!

Later, QD.

LOL.


um, someone should tie him up and starve him and see how he feels.

[TheGodfather]

Can you not fuccing read? It states plain as day, in plain Spanish, that his last name is Vargas.......hmmm........which, coincidently is Spanish for Vic......oh my GOD!!!

Miguel Vargas!

Later, QD.

All I read was the title to be honest with you.

[DUBSf22c]

repost

[TIGERJC]

LOL

[Killer]

stupid son of a *****

[R32Dragon]

If someone did that to him, would that be considered art?


Bunch of liberal art, tree hugg'n hippies...

[EJ25RUN]

If someone did that to him, would that be considered art?


Bunch of liberal art, tree hugg'n hippies...

do it to him and ill tell you.

[Stormhammer]

I posted this on another car forum that I frequent and a member brought up while a cynical and sick, possibly a valid point

"the only way I could imagine this being justifiable, and barely, would be if the artist was an animal rights activist trying to make a point about the fates of strays or the impact humanity is having on certain species in the wild. Alot of animals die slow painful deaths from starvation because of spreading human populations and because of lazy pet owners abandoning or failing to spay or neuter their pets. The artist might be trying to get exactly the reaction he's getting by purposely starving an animal. We all know certain domesticated animals would quickly die of starvation if left in the wild, as do deer and plenty of others who can't cope with humanity's growing presence, but we don't lose sleep over it because we don't have to look at it. Standing there, at that exhibit, staring at a dying dog, you would feel it for what it is, unconscionable. Hearing about it now you feel it for what it is, absolutely unthinkable. The "artist" might want you to ask yourself, "if it's so unthinkable to do it, then why isn't it unthinkable to let it happen" Either way, he has people all over the web discussing animal cruelty. That is an accomplishment in and of itself. Knowing it happens in the back of your mind, it's always been easy to brush aside. All he did was put reality in your face and you don't like it, perhaps. He could be appealing to the same part of most of us that is fine with eating the beef, but could never kill the cow. Humans are very "out of sight out of mind" type beings and we're not so appalled by suffering we feel like we can't control as we are by suffering we can and do control. He might, MIGHT, be trying to point out that you can and should do everything in your power to help stop animal suffering, and that failing to ACT is as good as chaining them up and starving them yourself. Watching that you might think it would have been great to just unchain the dog and give him a fighting chance on his own to find food. You're probably thinking, if the dog is free, it's up to the dog to survive. The artist is saying he doesn't think that's good enough, especially for domesticated animals. Humans domesticated dogs, so humans have an obligation to NOT expect them to survive on their own in the wild. Letting a domesticated dog fend for itself, is as good (to the artist) as chaining it up and not feeding it.

Sometimes it takes a BOLD and unthinkable act to get people to see their own true nature. If this is to be considered art, then it is open to interpretation. My interpretation is that the artist means for you to be disgusted by his act, but he also means for you to eventually draw parallels in your mind between his direct action, and your own inaction. The dog is dead, there's no going back from that, but if his life is really so valuable to you that you're "disgusted" and ready to physically harm the human who did it, then perhaps you'll also care enough to go down to the pound and rescue a stray that will be put down in 3 days, or to stop your car next time you see one wandering the streets of your town."

"...he wants you to eventually realize that it is just as bad to do nothing about it, as it is to physically commit the act yourself. You're playing into his hand perfectly when you despise the people who did nothing. The people who did nothing represent you, and me, and all of us who go on about our daily lives and do nothing about animal suffering.


Now, what would really be graduate level art, would be if he did it to a person. half the world's population lives on $2/day but that doesn't stop americans from blowing money on senseless, meaningless stuff, myself more than most. If he chained up a human and let him starve, his point would be that if you're not going to help starving people all over the world then you might as well chain one up and force him to starve yourself.

When you say, "those people who didn't help are just as bad as him", you're reacting EXACTLY as the artist meant for you to react because the average person doesn't do anything about animal or human suffering outside their immediate view. again, out of sight out of mind. Everything about every post is ironic in this light. When we bash the people watching, we are bashing the part of the art that was meant to represent us, and we are displaying our true ignorance and blindness to our oblivious over privileged a$$es.. The title of the thread "Wth is wrong with people" becomes indirectly aimed at all of us, because in our day to day lives, we are the people walking by doing nothing to help. The art of the thing is the whole exhibit.

The act of chaining the dog represents how helpless the animal kingdom is to defend itself against our advancement and our neglect. Putting it on display is symbolic of the news media or any means by which information flows around the world. The dog himself is representative of all animal suffering, neglect and abuse by inaction, of which we are all aware. The people viewing the exhibit are symbolic of you and I and everyone who watches this stuff on the news and reads about it in the paper and does nothing to help.

I'm convinced, this is art, powerful art, and your reactions prove it. Art doesn't have to make you feel good. If it's genius, it will get an emotional reaction out of you and perhaps motivate you to action. I won't be signing the petition. It should be displayed."

[BKgen®]

LOL this is an actual banner that just popped up on IA

[Ran]

"I'm convinced, this is art, powerful art, and your reactions prove it. Art doesn't have to make you feel good. If it's genius, it will get an emotional reaction out of you and perhaps motivate you to action. I won't be signing the petition. It should be displayed."

What a crock. It's not art, it's unadultrated bullsh*t with a justifying stamp being put on it. That's the same bullsh*t as justifying radical action because it's a religious belief.



Looks like I'm good to go.

[HvyArms]

:ahem:

Um, The US starves hundreds of thousands a year through sanctions, and calls it "Liberation"



..that is all

[Sammich]

:ahem:

Um, The US starves hundreds of thousands a year through sanctions, and calls it "Liberation"



..that is all

[BKgen®]

what a douchebag. i'd go to the exhibit and sneak him in some beggin' strips every day.

[HvyArms]

what a douchebag. i'd go to the exhibit and sneak him in some beggin' strips every day.

fuq that, I'd go in and cut the leash

[Reaper]

fuq that, I'd go in and cut the leash

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thats what i was thinking

[Dietcoke]

Shame it wasn't a cat... then I'd almost be okay with it.