Thursday, May 03, 2012
Court stops German artist strangling puppies to death on stage
guardian.co.uk: When radical director Peter Brook finished a play with a burning butterfly, he specified no one should know whether it was real or fake. No such ambiguity existed in a German artist's plan to strangle two puppies to death on stage at a Berlin theatre. The show has been scrapped after legal intervention.
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Don't assume that the announced purpose is the real purpose. In the 1970s, one of the most effective forms of protest against the Vietnam War was to announce that a puppy would be napalmed in the center of a college campus, which would of course draw a huge, passionate crowd to argue against it -- who would then be asked by organizers why it was okay to napalm humans but not dogs. This also reminds me of the recent uproar over the "art installation" in the form of a cake made to look like a racist stereotype of an African woman's body, allegedly intended to protest genital mutilation. In that case, it's pretty obvious that the real purpose was to make the artist famous, and that may well be the case here.
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