Digital BW, The Print

Life always has a fascination with death.  

"We should not be ashamed of our bodies."

Think of PT Barnum or others who exhibit the macabre to excite us.

The good doktor in the black hat looks like a modern image of Death (in a black hood). 

I was appalled at the exhibition of these "volunteers" corpses for "edutainment."  Entertainment by showing the gruesome and "arty" poses of people's remains...the foetus in the woman for instance.

Appalled that someone can exhibit this in Germany (or anywhere)...where I thought the respect for life would have been "growing" since the Holocaust.    How insensitive can people be?  Of course, the exhibit moves on to Brussels and to Britain later...so it is not a German issue. 

Appalled that the exhibitor has thousands of volunteers who want to be eviscerated and shrink wrapped and put on display.  

Appalled at the emptiness. 

Appalled at the throngs of people (millions?) that have seen this for entertainment.

Appalled that this could be a sign of our times or defined as "art."  

It strikes me as...."evil."   

I don't say that lightly.  I have studied the horrors of WWII for my documentary film on WWII and read of many attrocities and the Holocaust and genocide and man's looking at man as something to display or use (thinking of human skin lampshades now).  

I watch my blinking cursor on this screen and I don't know what else to say...I am DISGUSTED!.

Steadman


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Johnny Deadman 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 7:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] ART-what is it?


  on 10/23/01 7:18 PM, Jerry Olson at jerryolson@... wrote:

  > Anyone see the segmented cow exhibit? Some idiot froze a cow, and sawed
  > it into thin slices, then encased them in acrylic and placed each of
  > about a dozen or so pieces about 2 feet apart. Is this really art, or
  > just plain vanilla cow abuse?

  one of the most popular exhibits in German of recent years (I think I have
  this right) was some extraordinary peeled and preserved corpses of former
  human beings. I only saw it on TV but it was pretty amazing.

  Here are a few links that give you an idea. Makes Damien Hirst look tame
  (and dull)


  http://chinadaily.com.cn.net/star/2001/0913/fe19-1.html

  http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/eVoid/April-2001/Plasticized-Corpse-Exh
  ibit.htm

      
  -- 
  John Brownlow

  http://www.pinkheadedbug.com


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