Boicot a la presencia de Guillermo Habacuc Vargas en la Bienal de Artes Visuales de Honduras 2008
Costa Rica’s Visual Arts Biennial (Bienarte) 2007 showcased a select group of artists. One of these artists, Guillermo Vargas Habakkuk, chained a lost dog to the wall of the exhibition and let it starve to death. That was his artistic contribution, which was appreciated so much that he has been invited to the Bienal de Artes Visuales de Honduras 2008 (The Biennial of Visual Arts of Honduras 2008), which is scheduled to take place in November in the country’s capital.
Half a million people have already signed the petition to drop this asshole from the art show and shame those that think there is artistic merit to animal abuse and murder.
This guy has a decent breakdown of the artist’s motivation. I see his point, I think, but it’s still abuse and murder.
There doesn’t seem to be a lot out there on this, at least in English. You can go to the artist’s website, but I don’t want to advertise for him. So if you really want to see messed up pictures of a dog starving to death in an art gallery as people stand by and do NOTHING, you can find them pretty easily.
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April 15th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Hi, I would be very happy to rock up to this arsehole’s next ‘exhibition’, cut the cables tying the dog, take the dog to the vet and tie up the artist, starve him and have heaps of people stand around a watch. I reckon the more people we could get there, the more chance of doing it….? I’d save the money and fly from Australia, if it meant saving the next dog. I’m deadly serious!
April 15th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Cool. You should go. Nobody bothered to help out the last dog, which is one of the reasons why the artist assumed nobody would care.
His argument is that there are scores of dogs in Costa Rica that are on the streets starving and nobody cares about them. However, imprisoning a dog and letting it starve to death in an art gallery is a very different thing. Plus, there are lots of people who starve to death on streets all over the world. We don’t tie up and exhibit them…
April 15th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Perhaps we should put starving people in art galleries? It would force people to confront the consequences of their (in)actions.
I sincerely hope that starvation was staged (I have read elsewhere that the dog was removed at the end and fed properly). But I think that those who walked by and did nothing are equally culpable, and that clearly “letting it starve to death in an art gallery is a very different thing” to letting the same dog starve to death on the street.
I think if anything good comes from this, it will be people deciding that should ‘do something’, about suffering animals and no doubt a few will. Unfortunately, it seems, most will feel that this is about one dog, and one evil man, and try to stop him with petitions and other symbolic instruments.