Is this art? (readers beware- pics of animal abuse)

dodolah

dodolah

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Hey y'all.

I hope no one gets annoyed with this kind of mail.
I have just received this mail from my professor at my university.
I basically copy and paste the email for you guys to see:

go to link below to sign petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.

Does it look like art to you?

But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.

PLEASE HELP STOP HIM!... SIGN THE PETITION.

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It has been proven through studies related to criminal behavior that persons who abuse animals are also a danger to humans. Hopefully this "artist" and his facilitators will someday be delivered from their sociopathic behaviors, or be placed behind bars.
 
There was a attempt by the gallery to say that the dog was being fed
and did not die... but was let back to the streets after the gallery run.

I don't think that people have bought it.
it's one thing when it's behind closed doors
it's another when it's displayed and people
have to confront the reality that many like
to pretend doesn't exist.
 
dodolah said:
Hey y'all.

I hope no one gets annoyed with this kind of mail.
I have just received this mail from my professor at my university.
I basically copy and paste the email for you guys to see:

go to link below to sign petition:

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.

For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.

Does it look like art to you?

But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.

PLEASE HELP STOP HIM!... SIGN THE PETITION.

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i just posted a bulletin on my myspace to make others aware of this!!!!
 
Had to check around. I see things like this posted from chain emails and they are usually false. This one has at least some truth to it:

Starving Dog as Art - Analysis

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Comments: No one has challenged the authenticity of the preceding photographs, which do appear to show a malnourished dog tethered in the corner of an art gallery with numerous observers milling about. The "installation" by Costa Rican artist Guillermo Vargas (aka "Habacuc" or "Habakkuk") was part of an August 2007 exhibition at the Galeria Codice (Codice Gallery) in Managua, Nicaragua. According to a description of the work on the website Artinfo.com, the artist also used dog biscuits to spell out the words "Eres lo que lees" ("You are what you read") on a nearby wall while playing the Sandanista anthem backwards and burning 175 pieces of crack cocaine in an incense burner.

In interviews, Vargas has said his inspiration came from a video about an indigent crack addict named Natividad Canda who received no help from authorities when he was attacked and killed by guard dogs while trespassing on private property in Costa Rica. People who viewed the video were disgusted, Vargas says, and he aimed to provoke the same reaction in those who viewed his artwork. At that he was successful.

Conflicting versions of events

It would be fair to ask, "Is it art?" -- but we'll leave that to the experts and dwell instead on the factual questions surrounding what really happened to Natividad Canda's namesake, the stray dog Vargas allegedly tortured and starved to death last year in the Galeria Codice. There are conflicting versions of events.

The popular account, which has spurred over a million people to sign online petitions protesting Vargas' planned inclusion in the Central American Biennial in Honduras, is that the dog was constantly tethered, went unfed, and ultimately died over the course of several days. But according to Galeria Codice director Juanita Bermúdez this did not happen. "It was untied all the time except for the three hours the exhibition lasted, and it was fed regularly with dog food Habacuc himself brought in," she was quoted as saying in the March 30, 2008 issue of the Observer. The dog escaped the next day and was not seen again, says Bermúdez.

'Habacuc' refuses to deny accusations

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That account has met with skepticism, however, because the artist himself refuses to confirm or deny it, insisting he wants to "retain the doubt" about what actually happened. In fact, Vargas seems pleased with the international uproar he has caused, claiming he intended all along to use the media to reach a larger audience with his message. At the same time, he warns observers not to take for granted that everything they have seen or read about the exhibit is true."I think the immediate reaction is to believe what it says in the petition," he said in a Spanish-language interview published on Yahoo. "But the human eye is treacherous." He chastised petitioners "sitting in front of computers" for not investigating further.

Which is a disingenous complaint, given his own coy refusal to deny that he starved the dog to death. He has gone so far, in fact, as to claim the opposite: "Natividad Canda died," he stated matter-of-factly in another interview. "The media were complicit in this."

The human eye may indeed be treacherous, but no more so than the obfuscations of the artist.

'Habucuc' won't be excluded from Biennial

At last report Guillermo "Habacuc" Vargas is still slated to exhibit at the Central American Biennial in Honduras, though the specifics of his work have not yet been made public. "Even I do not know," he said during the Yahoo interview in March. "I am working on some ideas."
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wow. Basically, what the director of the gallery saying is they fed the dog to prolong the 3 hours daily torture?

someone in the right mind will not even bother introducing such stress to an already malnourished (or made malnourished for the sake of this art, who knows?) dog.

What a scary thought. Habacuc is the kind of guy that will do anything for the sake of shocking his viewer. and I think this has already go way over the line.
What is next? tied a malnourished baby?

Disgusting!
 
i obviously don't agree, butttt

they also tried to treat that dog by vet, and he wasn't eating or letting them treat, and would have died anyway in the same way

if anything i think this person evoked an emotion out of a lot of people that in the broad scale of things will help animal rights and human rights. that is all

it isn't as if he actively took a healthy dog and started eating at his health, he took a dog that was already too malnurished to survive and used it to show an example of how __ up life can be when people cant put an end to suffering, and i must say he succeeded, as I'm hearing about this from multiple sources, work, school, facebook. here, friends etc etc etc
 
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I would never stand and watch something like this even it meant my arrest.
Even if this poor animal was beyond help,let him die with a little dignity and not promote some a hole trying to make a name for himself by exploiting a dying animal. Disgusting.
 
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