SWAG PROTEST
The U.K.'s Foreign Investment art group has announced that it will drown three kittens to protest the Tate Modern's commodification of conceptual artist Joseph Beuys.
In a statement, they said that they are "really angry about the current Joseph Beuys exhibition, where the Tate Gallery has decided to take upon itself to sell key fobs with little bits of felt inside, small blackboards with chalk, jigsaw puzzles and biscuit tins making a mockery of the artist's work. [...] On their website they describe him as being charismatic, innovative, influential and unconventional, so they key fobbed him."
The event will take place in a special at home exhibition in South London on Monday, February 28, 2005. For information contact [email protected]
The artists feel they have no other option but to drown the kittens,
saying, "We feel really bad about the kittens but it's the Tate
Gallery's fault blame them."
If three kittens = a key fob, how many get offed for a clock?
(Oh yeah--Next time: porn, but not just any porn, Jersey City porn.)
It's [email protected] actually, but hold your emails for now--there were only 20 tickets and they've sold out.
Posted by: Oscar | February 24, 2005 at 12:54 PM