Who cares about Monet or Van Gogh, our generation has a naked woman hugging and slow dancing with a dead pig. What exactly has happened to art lately? According to a Daily Mail Article,
After pickled sheep, unmade beds and painting with elephant dung, some questioned where modern art could go next.
Kira O’Reilly will provide her own answer today by spending four hours naked, hugging a dead pig - at the taxpayer’s expense.
The controversial Irish performance artist will invite one person at a time to watch her sit in a specially-constructed set and perform a ‘crushing slow dance’ with the carcass in her arms.
She claims the bizarre exhibition is an attempt to ‘identify’ with the pig, which she cuts with a knife during the show.
I’m sure it will be lovely. I’m just glad I don’t live in Britain, where taxpayer money is funding this swill (pun intended). That being said, we all know tax money here in America has gone to fund similar “art”.
I almost hate to admit it, but PETA got it right on this one…
Anita Singh, spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said: ‘This seems to be a desperate cry for help that merits visits from mental health counsellors, not voyeurs.
‘As Miss O’Reilly seems to depend on the shock value of using a murdered pig as a prop, perhaps lacking the talent to make it as a proper artist, may we suggest she take up a day job instead to pay the bills. This is not entertainment - this is sick.’
Look, if this was privately funded, I would still find the whole thing a little disturbing (and yes, a little funny), but I would understand that this falls under one’s innate freedom of expression. That being said, this “art” should definitely not be taxpayer funded–nor should any art for that matter.
A photo is available on the Daily Mail website. I won’t subject my readers to it by posting it here.