Meat as art: Boston-area gallery presents unique exhibit
By Ann Bagel Storck
for the Meatingplace.com
7/3/2008
An art gallery in Cambridge, Mass., has set out to show that meat can be
more than just a meal, it can also be a masterpiece.
Isn't it bad enough that we kill animals for food when we can survive perfectly well without eating meat? Now we kill animals just to play with their dead bodies as "art"?
The Pierre Menard Gallery is hosting "Meat After Meat Joy," an exhibit
featuring artists who work with meat as material, subject or both.
The title refers to a 1964 performance by Carolee Schneemann, which this
show displays as a projected black-and-white video that depicts men and
women frolicking amid plucked chickens, sausages and dead fish.
To me that is only one degree below people frolicking amid dead human bodies. Depraved.
The exhibit, which the Boston Globe called "viscerally unnerving and
occasionally daring," includes pieces such as a raw meat sculpture of an
American flag (with lard for the white stripes) by Betty Hirst...
I suppose it is fitting that the country which kills the most animals, about 10 billion per year, should completely waste some of them to reproduce its own flag. Yes an American flag made of meat says it all ... we are the cruelest nation to animals of any in the world ... and proud of it. Sigh.
