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KRL · 05-19-2003, 12:08 PM

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - A Danish art museum director was acquitted of animal cruelty charges Monday after a court ruled that a display featuring goldfish inside working blenders was not cruel.

The display at the Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding featured 10 blenders and invited visitors to blend the fish if they wanted to. Somebody did in early 2000 ? and two goldfish were ground up.

Animals right activists complained that the exhibit was cruel. Museum director Peter Meyer was fined $315 by police, but he refused to pay and went on trial in Kolding, 125 miles west of the capital, Copenhagen.

Judge Preben Bagger ruled Monday that Meyer did not have to pay the fine because the fish were killed "instantly" and "humanely."

During the two-day trial, a zoologist and a representative of blender manufacturer Moulinex said the fish likely died within a second after the blender started.

It was not known who turned the blenders on.

The installation was the work of Chilean-born Danish artist Marco Evaristti.

The Trapholt Art Museum draws about 80,000 visitors annually.

PostWhore · 05-19-2003, 12:12 PM

stupid fish...

MagicksAntics · 05-19-2003, 12:12 PM

80,000 visitors and only one pushed the button?

amazing.

D-Money · 05-19-2003, 12:15 PM

yum

Is it humane to swallow them while they're alive? How long does it take your stomach acides to kill the fish? Faster or slwoer then a blender? Is swallowing them illegal? Every frat does it.

Art is an interesting word. What if I put emSkiee in a blender? would it be art?

Sly_RJ · 05-19-2003, 12:18 PM

Some of my friends are into art. Once they were telling me of an art piece: a jar filled with feces.

Sold for one million dollars.

Art is all about perception. Find some impressionable person with money to burn and make them think you know what you're talking about.

alias · 05-19-2003, 12:19 PM

It is art.

Interesting article.

alias · 05-19-2003, 12:22 PM

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Originally posted by Sly_RJ
Some of my friends are into art. Once they were telling me of an art piece: a jar filled with feces.

Sold for one million dollars.

Art is all about perception. Find some impressionable person with money to burn and make them think you know what you're talking about.

Most of those shit cans exploded, as that was believed to be the intent.

Artist sells to rich buyer, trendy buyer shows off to snobby friends, after a while the shit can gets a little sun and the crap expands.. . .

KRL · 05-19-2003, 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sly_RJ
Some of my friends are into art. Once they were telling me of an art piece: a jar filled with feces.

Sold for one million dollars.

Art is all about perception. Find some impressionable person with money to burn and make them think you know what you're talking about.

I know. I have a buddy that sells art in Palm Springs. Always jokes, "You wouldn't believe how much money wealthy people pay for this shit if you have a fancy looking signature on the bottom."

Danny_C · 05-19-2003, 02:55 PM

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Originally posted by alias

Most of those shit cans exploded, as that was believed to be the intent.

Artist sells to rich buyer, trendy buyer shows off to snobby friends, after a while the shit can gets a little sun and the crap expands.. . .

lol

Yo Adrian · 05-19-2003, 02:59 PM

LOL I like it....watching fish swim around a working blender

dnsmonster · 05-19-2003, 04:07 PM

Those are not goldfish, those are tropical swordfish. Fucking zoologists.

TheBigGuy · 05-19-2003, 04:54 PM

How about if whoever hit the button was required to drink the mix. Wouldn't that fall into a right of passage, transformation of energy, metamorphisis or something? Still pretty cruel and lame though.

gothweb · 05-19-2003, 04:55 PM

It isn't cruel to put them in a blender. If it is cruel, it is cruel to turn the blender on. Putting them there doesn't do anything to the fish.

KRL · 05-19-2003, 04:59 PM

From an artistic perspective, I imagine this distorted thinking artist was trying to convey the fact that we all live with the fact that death is only a moment away when your time is up and God decides to press your "time to come to Heaven" button.

Machete_ · 05-19-2003, 05:02 PM

It was on the news today - Im truly not proud to ba a Dane today :-(

Last year he made a "event" with DEAD puppys

TheBigGuy · 05-19-2003, 05:06 PM

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Originally posted by KRL
From an artistic perspective, I imagine this distorted thinking artist was trying to convey the fact that we all live with the fact that death is only a moment away when your time is up and God decides to press your "time to come to Heaven" button.

True, but couldn't that be conveyed w/o the blender being plugged in, since we are not God? Either way, it's lame art.

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