Dead bunnies show is a go, despite protests from Winnipeggers WINNIPEG - Health inspectors in Winnipeg have given the go-ahead to a local exhibition involving decomposing rabbits.
It's the work of the Winnipeg artist, Diana Thorneycroft. The exhibition is called Monstrance. In the exhibit, Thorneycroft has suspended the carcasses of a dozen dead bunnies in a neighbourhood wood where they are being infested by maggots and allowed to rot.
The exhibition does not open officially until Friday, but advance word of its contents was enough to generate calls from outraged citizens.
Thorneycroft says she's celebrating what she calls the 'gloriousness of putrefaction.'
'All of us are moving toward death and dust,' she says. 'A lot of people won't acknowledge that'.
Joel Kettner was one of two inspectors asked to scrutinize the exhibit for potential harm to humans. Although he says the show can go ahead he's laid down four conditions: no unsupervised kids; Thorneycroft must erect signs to keep people from touching the exhibit; the exhibit must be cordoned off and clearly labelled as an art exhibit; and a walkway deemed too close to the Red River must be moved.
The exhibit has a second component involving 23 toy bunnies, which will be mounted in an indoor gallery.
Thorneycroft has shaved the fur from the stuffed bunnies and inserted bits of the dead rabbits into the toys' chest cavities. She has also inserted small relics of her own photographic work, mounted on blocks of wood, inside the real carcasses.
As the rabbit flesh decomposes, the relics will be exposed –thus the title Monstrance, which is a transparent receptacle used by the Catholic Church to display sacred objects.
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It's the work of the Winnipeg artist, Diana Thorneycroft. The exhibition is called Monstrance. In the exhibit, Thorneycroft has suspended the carcasses of a dozen dead bunnies in a neighbourhood wood where they are being infested by maggots and allowed to rot.
The exhibition does not open officially until Friday, but advance word of its contents was enough to generate calls from outraged citizens.
Thorneycroft says she's celebrating what she calls the 'gloriousness of putrefaction.'
'All of us are moving toward death and dust,' she says. 'A lot of people won't acknowledge that'.
Joel Kettner was one of two inspectors asked to scrutinize the exhibit for potential harm to humans. Although he says the show can go ahead he's laid down four conditions: no unsupervised kids; Thorneycroft must erect signs to keep people from touching the exhibit; the exhibit must be cordoned off and clearly labelled as an art exhibit; and a walkway deemed too close to the Red River must be moved.
The exhibit has a second component involving 23 toy bunnies, which will be mounted in an indoor gallery.
Thorneycroft has shaved the fur from the stuffed bunnies and inserted bits of the dead rabbits into the toys' chest cavities. She has also inserted small relics of her own photographic work, mounted on blocks of wood, inside the real carcasses.
As the rabbit flesh decomposes, the relics will be exposed –thus the title Monstrance, which is a transparent receptacle used by the Catholic Church to display sacred objects.
www.infoculture.cbc.ca/archives/visart/visart_09141999_deadbunnies.html
EVIL BITCH!!wasting good food.
jeez!
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pickledpizza Older, nicer, fluffier.,
Sat 16 Mar 2002, 19:11,
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