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houseisland
December 13th, 2007, 11:19 PM
Guess NooNoo and Mags will be giving this one a miss?

CBC --Fecal art: Artist exhibits slabs of human excrement at London gallery ( http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/071213/K12139AU.html)

"LONDON - An artist is inviting Londoners to come face-to-face with the wretched labour of one of India's lowest castes - by filling an art gallery with 21 big blocks of human excrement."

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21 MÓDULOS ANTROPOMÉTRICOS DE MATERIA FECAL HUMANA CONSTRUIDOS POR LA GENTE DE SULABH INTERNATIONAL, INDIA (http://www.santiago-sierra.com/200709_1024.htm)

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NooNoo
December 14th, 2007, 04:33 AM
Hell yah... I have enough excrement experience having raised 4 kids.
Platypus
December 14th, 2007, 05:17 AM
That could be a punster's field-day couldn't it? :)
NooNoo
December 14th, 2007, 05:26 AM
That could be a punster's field-day couldn't it? :)
No sh1t!
Platypus
December 14th, 2007, 05:31 AM
Well I didn't want to poo-pooh the concept, but it's a whole load of cr... umm...
Ferrit
December 14th, 2007, 10:18 AM
Trying to imagine the mindset that would consider this "ART"
Be afraid
Be very very afraid
houseisland
December 14th, 2007, 11:10 AM
No sh1t!

Au contraire!

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Niclo Iste
December 14th, 2007, 01:03 PM
Is it just me or is everyone talking SH1T in here?
Niclo Iste
December 14th, 2007, 02:56 PM
Upon further thought I think this art stinks.
CeeBee
December 14th, 2007, 05:01 PM
That looks sh1tty [pun intended]
xpuser357
December 14th, 2007, 06:38 PM
Upon further thought I think this art stinks.





I second that thought:thumbs:
CCT
December 14th, 2007, 09:02 PM
It once was said that Art is in the Eye of the Beholder. Then someone said, 'I don't know much about art, BUT I know what I like.'

This kind of 'shock-the-senses' art has been offered up for many years in the West. It's like the current spate of 'America's Next Talentless Politician' type shows - meaningless and trite, but the modern Western youth population seems to want this kind of entertainment.

Bread and Circusses.
houseisland
December 14th, 2007, 09:21 PM
In fact one could say that it goes way beyond being arty-farty.


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CCT
December 14th, 2007, 09:34 PM
Was that a Bun Pun?
MobilePCPhysician
December 15th, 2007, 12:10 AM
[quote=houseisland]In fact one could say that it goes way beyond being arty-farty.
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You mean artsy-fartsy....
NooNoo
December 15th, 2007, 05:09 PM
Either way, that artist must be bricking it....
houseisland
December 15th, 2007, 06:55 PM
Yes. And he is probably the butt of many a joke.

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Niclo Iste
December 15th, 2007, 07:34 PM
Regardless i'm sure he's the type who'd just turn the other cheek
slgrieb
December 15th, 2007, 08:14 PM
Call me strange, but I look at that this exhibition and see the huge amount of human living it represents; the hours of toil to produce the food, the shared companionship of family meals. Isn't this a metaphor for all of human existence?

Mostly, I wonder who collected the material and made the blocks. See also: I don't think they could pay me enough.
constructor
December 16th, 2007, 05:01 AM
does it cost fecal to get in?