httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-jIP8i1djg&feature=related

I’ve heard about this “artist” and I feel like it’s something that should be given attention to. View the video and you’ll see what I mean. It’s disgusting and in no way should be even remotely categorized with art.

If you feel incline, please sign the petition in the link below:

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Edit: I found this on a message board from facebook, I think it suits my views on the subject quite adequately–

“the main thing at issue here i think is not so much that someone failed to feed a dog (though yes, that is lamentable enough) but what gets authorised to be put in a gallery space. the leap in thinking that can make a living, starving dog into a ready made found object for contemplation is not avant-garde to me, it simply shows a profoundly disturbing lack of distinction between aesthetics and social compassion (more fascism, anyone??). & hardly what you would want as a representation of a nation in a biennale.”

Edit: My sister mentioned to me that there’s a bit of “hoax” to this story. Apparently the dog would get fed/taken care of during the after hours of the exhibit and then was released after the show. I still don’t think it’ll change my views. I feel the use of live animals as props is inhumane (at least in the way he used them) and not artistic or avant-garde. Also his aims for the show didn’t add to what the public already could deduce themselves. I feel like he was aiming to be controversial and not being a real artist with integrity and a responsibility towards what he puts on display for the public.

I seriously hope this isn’t what eventually gets put in the art history books. It’s pretentious BS.