Save Dog From ‘Art’ « Fleeting Senses

Got this email today… have been reading about it elsewhere too…so thought of posting it here..hmm…

Hi All,

this is a very serious matter…
In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, he tied him to a rope in an art gallery, starving 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.

Let’s STOP HIM!!!!!

Copy and paste this link into your computer web browser http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html

You’ll come onto the page where you can click on “sign the petition”,

On the next page you need to “preview your signature”, so click on that, then click “approve signature”

Please do it.
It’s free of charge, there is no need to register, and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature.
Please also send this e-mail to as many contact as you can… Let’s stop him!!!
If you want to double check all the above information you can Google the name of the ‘artist’ to see all I have just said corresponds to truth, .
Thank you

Good Grief! *from The Statesman

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In case you have made it this far and wondering where you are, I think I owe you an explanation. After all I must have done something that brought you here. Anyways.... About this blog - don't know what strange affliction it is to post random inconsequential snippets from the recesses of my demented mind. Its deliberate, but an accidental one. And it continues to evolve in that way. The word evolve should not be taken in a Spencerian understanding of things, it's perhaps a more random haphazard spurted 'growth' than anything else. Sometimes its just plain stagnant. It is quite embarrassing at times to put up anything here on this blog. In any instance this self publishing exercise will always be a scarred reminder of how stupid one can be. Therefore, without deprecating my efforts further, I want to say that this blog isn't about my photographs (that's what I primarily engage in - photography), it isn't about whether the opinions I have on certain issues matters less, it isn't about how I made a discovery by the way of a film or a place I just happened to have visited, it isn't about all those things I just mentioned and also isn't about those things that could corroborate with the above mentioned disclaimers. So what is it about? Well, I think, its about the emptiness that surrounds me, the emptiness of thoughts and memories and afflictions - by the way of a person, a place, a music, a film. Not much into analysis, more into observations. More visual than literal. Although sometimes the two mix well, at other times they're like oil and water. It's abstract, and its how I feel about life. Don't try to make sense of it. You'll probably be very disappointed. So what's the point of being here? None ~ Zilch. It's very personal and very selfishly so. Peace & love. Siddhartha

7 Responses to “Save Dog From ‘Art’”

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1 Netty Gritty
April 21, 2008 at 7:07 pm

hello siddharha,
i am here via a comment in my blog by life-is-elsewhere.

what’s happening in the pictures is truly abominable. and to think that it’s happening in the name of art!!!! i am an artist myself and i want to puke.

why doesn’t the artist tie himself up and starve to death instead? that would be avant-garde performance art, no?

thanks for posting this. i am definitely gonna sign the petition.

2 Siddhartha Hajra
April 21, 2008 at 4:53 am

hey ‘netty gritty’ thanks for dropping by. would like to see your work of art. any possible links?

3 Siddhartha Hajra
April 21, 2008 at 4:55 am

dear anindya,
thanks for taking this up…i didn’t know what else to do except post this information here..
siddhartha

4 Netty Gritty
April 21, 2008 at 3:49 pm

hello again,
my art blog, eh? well, i am just so much into my internet blog that i keep on procrastinating the opening of my art blog. you see, i want to do my art blog just right, and so i am taking (way to much) time!
one of these days i will write you and say, hey, come on over!! chobir adda maira ashi!

5 chuba
April 21, 2008 at 4:28 pm

no comments at all!

6 Ritwik Banerjee
April 22, 2008 at 9:55 pm

I still cannot believe what I just saw and read. How was this allowed? How could a murder be considered art? The artist is a sadistic creature and should be admitted with haste to a mental asylum. The “visitors” to this “art exhibition” should probably be forced to follow him there too!