I continued looking at artsists that shoc using animals within their art, even though the previous videos i had watched had made me feel quite sick and disgusted at human behaviour.
It made me question myself, I eat meat, i wear fur and leather, I shoot and go to hunts,and I have deers antlers on my bedroom walls. Is this any different to these artsists that I am questioning?!? I continue to think about this through out my research, knowing it will already have a huge influence on my work.
GUILLERMO VARGAS, born 1975in Costa Rica created a piece of performance art entitled “Exposicion no 1,” 2007. Vergas tied up an emaciated dog with “you are what you read” written in dog food on the wall with cociane and marijuana buring around it. There were rumour that the dog starved to death and some that he escaped. This piece obviously had many complaints, however Vergas did make the point that all of the viewers that passed through to see the work, not one of them fed the dog, or released it, so makes them no better than him tying it up, he called the audience hypocrits.
