Three items in the recent news. Art and Life Death:
An exhibition to die for?literally
Gareth Harris | 17.4.08 | Issue 190LONDON. The German artist Gregor Schneider is planning the ultimate performance piece: showing a person dying as part of an exhibition.
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?I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died,? he told The Art Newspaper. ?My aim is to show the beauty of death.?The artist says that Dr Roswitha Franziska Vandieken, who runs her own private clinic in D?sseldorf, has agreed to help find volunteers who are willing to die in public in the name of art. Dr Vandieken was unavailable for comment. ?I am confident that we?ll find people to take part,? says Schneider.
He says he would like to stage the performance at the Haus Lange museum in Krefeld, Germany. The museum declined to comment.
The Costa Rican artist Guillermo Vargas, also known as Habacuc, is surrounded in a great controversy due to the death of a street dog in an exhibition that was created last August in Managua (Nicaragua).Several defenders of the animals in Costa Rica discovered this work through blogs and accused it yesterday of cruelty.
In this exhibition, the artist confronted the audience with an emaciated, ill street dog, hungry and tied to the corner of the room.The animal was captured in a poor district of Managua. The dog died after a day in the exhibition, according to the Nation.com Marta Leonor Gonz?lez, publisher of the cultural supplement of the Press in Nicaragua. The installation also included the phrase, written with dog food, "You are what you read"; as well as of an audio of the Sandinista Hymn "The Other Way Around", photos and a incense burner, where 175 stones of crack and one ounce of marijuana were burned. Habacuc said yesterday that its work went a tribute to Natividad Canda, Nicaraguan that died after being attacked by two dogs to rottweiler in a factory in Carthage.
Art major Aliza Shvarts ?08 wants to make a statement.Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself ?as often as possible? while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body.
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