Whilst re-searching about Blood, I though it best to broaden my search criteria to all bodily fluids, to assess everything that has gone before, so I have enough knowledge and supporting evidence.
I came across some very disturbing artworks one from artist Piero Manzoni, who created Artist’s Shit in 1961. I am amazed that this is considered to be art as it is ‘shit’. But it is on display at the Tate gallery. The Tate gallery only have 1 tin (number 4) of the 90 tins that were made which contains ‘Artist’s shit’.
‘ In December 1961 Manzoni wrote in a letter to the artist Ben Vautier: ‘I should like all artists to sell their fingerprints, or else stage competitions to see who can draw the longest line or sell their shit in tins. The fingerprint is the only sign of the personality that can be accepted: if collectors want something intimate, really personal to the artist, there’s the artist’s own shit, that is really his.’ (Letter reprinted in Battino and Palazzoli p.144.)
