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Here we go again

Death On Display - It’s Art !

Here we go again. Another looney tune “artist” looking to create some kind of shock event, “push back boundaries”, and “open discussions”. As if. This time some whacko German wants to find a volunteer, someone from a hospice, willing to die in public while other people watch. That’s “art”.

What a sick fucker. How callous can you be? He’s taking what ought to be a private moment, a time of last words, final prayers, and ultimate release, and reducing it to a public spectacle for voyuers to gawk at. These “artists” need to be institutionalized, and I’m beginning to think the “performance artists” need to be drowned. In a vat of urine naturally, and then put on display.

The prizewinning artist Gregor Schneider, enfant terrible of the German cultural scene, is looking for a volunteer who is willing to die for his — that is, Schneider’s — art.

He wants someone whose dying hours will be spent in an art gallery with the public admiring the way the light plays on the flesh of a person gasping for the last breath.


Prizewinning? What award did he win, Asshole of the Year? And the purpose of the art is admire the play of light? What horseshit. Just possibly, maybe, you could make a bit of art from this subject’s last moments as a kind of personal passion play, focusing on the contrast between pain and suffering, and the relaxing of the will to live and the escape into the arms of God. Maybe. But that’s more theater than art, and why the stage has all those famous death scenes. The same goes for film. It’s the enhancement of those scenes, the creation of an artificial moment, that allows the playwright or filmmaker to force the focus of the moment to shift from the event itself to a greater meaning. That’s art ... transcending a microcosm into something greater. But it gets there by starting with an artificial situation. This guy wants to take real death, real pain, real loneliness, real suffering, and call the disinterested witness of it art. Scumbag. Send his neo-nazi ass to Darfur so he can be surrounded by his “art” 24 hours a day. And with any luck he’ll become a part of his own works. How’s that for transcendence?

Politicians and curators are in a state of uproar about Schneider’s plans. The 39-year-old artist has been concerned with death for much of his career. He gained critical acclaim for a sculpture, “Hannelore Reuen,” of a dead woman. He has been hatching his current idea since 1996, and now has a sympathetic pathologist and art collector to help to find a candidate who wants to become a work of art in the final days of his or her life.


Right. So we’ve got a sick fucker who has been suffering from depression for at least a decade, “concerned with death” the morbid little asshair. I bet he pulled the wings off of bugs as a child and gloried in the “creation of the moment”. One heavy canvas jacket please, with extra extra long sleeves. Nutcase. And he’s drawn others in to his circle of bullshit. Not surprising; there’s always some gullible dope who can be conned by “artists”.

Death is commonly seen as the last taboo, but artists have been trying hard to demystify it. Gunther von Hagens, nicknamed Doctor Death, has been traveling the world with an exhibition of plastinated corpses, showing genuine human bodies in living poses, playing chess or on horseback. The Wellcome Collection in London has an exhibition of portraits of people pictured before and after death by two German photographers.

JC on a flaming pogo stick, what the fuck is with these Germans? Didn’t they get enough Death Appreciation 65 years ago? Has the whole damn country turned into Hannibal Lecterstein? What next, outright murder as “the emancipation of performance art”? I’ve got an idea ... let’s get this death cult bunch of sickos to focus on suicide. There own. And they can record it while they perform it in front of all the other sicko artists. With any luck, they’ll all join in, and we’ll be done with them once and for all. These people are clinically insane.

The influential gallery owner Beatrix Kalwa spoke for many German curators who rule out the idea of giving space to Schneider’s artistic endeavor.

“Existential matters like death, birth or the act of reproduction do not belong in a museum,” she said. “There is a fundamental difference between portraying these acts in an art form, and showing them in actuality.”

The head of the German hospice foundation that provides care for the terminally ill, Eugen Brysch, said: “This is pure voyeurism and makes a mockery of those who are dying.”

Well at least there are two people with functioning brains left in Germany. That’s a start.

But Schneider, who feigned his own death as part of an exhibition in Germany in 2000, argues that death is already undignified and that his aim is to restore its grace.

Sorry Fritz. If you didn’t actually die then it wasn’t art, it was just street theater. So try again, Ok, and this time keep it real. Oh, and do it alone. You know how the act of observation changes the true meaning of the event, therefore the grace of it has to be diminished. So hang yourself in the dark so that not even you can see it, and you’ll create a perfect moment. We’ll be over here with the rational people, eating pizza and having a beer, and not pay you the slightest bit of attention. That’s what you deserve for your “art”. Fartbubble. What. A. Loser.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 04/24/2008 at 12:28 PM   
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