Comments on: Is This Art? Or Animal Abuse? Animal And Dog Lovers Be Warned… http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/ A Day In A Life Of Insanity Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:10:09 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Eccentric Aesthetics http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/comment-page-20/#comment-3594 Eccentric Aesthetics Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:54:52 +0000 http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/#comment-3594 [...] If you guys don’t recognize the name, he’s the artist who starved a dog for an art exhibit.  Of course you’d expect a bunch of controversy around it (and here I am talking about something that happened so long ago) with something like that.  I [...] [...] If you guys don’t recognize the name, he’s the artist who starved a dog for an art exhibit.  Of course you’d expect a bunch of controversy around it (and here I am talking about something that happened so long ago) with something like that.  I [...]

]]> By: will http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/comment-page-20/#comment-3535 will Mon, 18 Apr 2011 02:16:57 +0000 http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/#comment-3535 I think it is fascinating that everyone is all up in arms about how this one dog has been cruelly tortured. Don't get me wrong, it's fucked up to tie any living creature to a wall and then not feed it. While you may want to be angry at the artist, you should also be angry at every member of the public that knew about this and didn't go feed the dog (despite the order's of the artist). Did it ever cross your PETA brains that the real artwork was what PEOPLE would do when faced with this situation? The dog might be the catalyst, but it just goes to show that all that's necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing. Stop trying to ban this artist from events-- successful art is controversial-- the point is to start a conversation which he clearly has done. I think it is fascinating that everyone is all up in arms about how this one dog has been cruelly tortured. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fucked up to tie any living creature to a wall and then not feed it. While you may want to be angry at the artist, you should also be angry at every member of the public that knew about this and didn’t go feed the dog (despite the order’s of the artist). Did it ever cross your PETA brains that the real artwork was what PEOPLE would do when faced with this situation? The dog might be the catalyst, but it just goes to show that all that’s necessary for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing. Stop trying to ban this artist from events– successful art is controversial– the point is to start a conversation which he clearly has done.

]]> By: sam http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/comment-page-20/#comment-3477 sam Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:12:02 +0000 http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/#comment-3477 i think that people like that sould be put in jail! =( i think that people like that sould be put in jail! =(

]]> By: mary jane http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/comment-page-20/#comment-3428 mary jane Thu, 04 Nov 2010 09:56:42 +0000 http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/#comment-3428 I think it's a pathetic attempt at being creative.Who does he think he is? In a sense it was meant to happen as every single living thing has an expirey date but he is not God or a higher being he doesn't have the right to take what doesn't belong to him. To purposely decide to take a life is not a good thing even if it was a fly or a mozzy it doesn't matter it doesn't excuse his actions. And for animal lover's out there I don't understand why you're not doing anything to make sure that there are no animals starving in the streets so that they cannot become victims of such crimes. If the so called artist didn't use the dog , chances are the dog would have probably died on the street and no one would've known or cared. You should commend him for showing you that ignorance kills, because I'm pretty sure no one noticed the dog went missing until it was famously proclaimmed as the "dead dog". if it was a publicity stunt for the artist, then well shame on him but really would you have done anything? Now be honest with yourself. i was very socked to but you sometimes have to take a step back and think. What are you doing but pointing fingers. The only thing we can do for the dead dog is protect many others like him on the street, starving, everyday. It is easy to point a finger when you have no one pointing a finger at you. I think it’s a pathetic attempt at being creative.Who does he think he is? In a sense it was meant to happen as every single living thing has an expirey date but he is not God or a higher being he doesn’t have the right to take what doesn’t belong to him. To purposely decide to take a life is not a good thing even if it was a fly or a mozzy it doesn’t matter it doesn’t excuse his actions. And for animal lover’s out there I don’t understand why you’re not doing anything to make sure that there are no animals starving in the streets so that they cannot become victims of such crimes. If the so called artist didn’t use the dog , chances are the dog would have probably died on the street and no one would’ve known or cared. You should commend him for showing you that ignorance kills, because I’m pretty sure no one noticed the dog went missing until it was famously proclaimmed as the “dead dog”. if it was a publicity stunt for the artist, then well shame on him but really would you have done anything? Now be honest with yourself. i was very socked to but you sometimes have to take a step back and think. What are you doing but pointing fingers. The only thing we can do for the dead dog is protect many others like him on the street, starving, everyday. It is easy to point a finger when you have no one pointing a finger at you.

]]> By: J.H.M. http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/comment-page-20/#comment-3402 J.H.M. Mon, 18 Oct 2010 04:50:01 +0000 http://www.theginblog.com/2007/10/artist-chains-up-dog-until-it-dies-is-this-art-or-animal-abuse/#comment-3402 I'm torn here. On the one hand, if this is true, I hope the wretch gets what's coming to him. On the other, as far as local news accounts go, it seems that the dog was actually fed and watered by the gallery owners quite sufficiently before running off, hence proving several rather uncomfortable points about all of us, the most brutal being the penchant to jump to dangerous conclusions based on incomplete information. I’m torn here.

On the one hand, if this is true, I hope the wretch gets what’s coming to him.

On the other, as far as local news accounts go, it seems that the dog was actually fed and watered by the gallery owners quite sufficiently before running off, hence proving several rather uncomfortable points about all of us, the most brutal being the penchant to jump to dangerous conclusions based on incomplete information.

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