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PETA Goes for Naked Women and Dead PigsKira O'Reilly, an 'artist' with questionable talent |
By Elena Gorgan, Entertainment News Editor
22nd of August 2006, 09:17 GMT
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Sure, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is fighting for a worthy cause, but from performances that show support, ranging from naked Pamela Anderson in shop windows to booklets handed to children with the caption 'Your Mommy Kills Animals!' (telling them that 'so your greedy mommy can have that fur coat to show off when she walks the streets'), where are we to draw the line?
The latest show that makes it pledge to the animals' cause in less than the normal way (meaning, campaigning and donating money) is the one led by the so-called artist Kira O'Reilly, that is currently taking place in Great Britain.
The 'artist', as she likes to be called, is at the same time the subject of the exhibition. Her work is simply called 'Inthewrongplaceness' and, as attractive and interesting as it may sound, it is nothing else but an example of a sadistic and disgusting peep-show. Basically, for ten minutes at a time, only one person can enter a room where he/she can see Kira naked, on a bed, with a dead and bloody pig in her arms.
The show can be seen at the Newlyn Art Gallery in Penzance, England, and O'Reilly described it, on the gallery's official site as, quote, 'a slow crushing dance with a pig for one person at a time'. She said about the experience (that is repeated for up to seven hours a day, if there are enough visitors): 'The work left me with an undercurrent of pigginess, unexpected fantasies of mergeance and interspecies metamorphoses began to flicker into my consciousness'.
While a spokesperson for the gallery said that the outrageous exhibition falls under the freedom of artistic expression category, one of the leading campaigners from PETA does not share the same view, even suggesting at one point that O'Reilly should seek a better paying job, where more clothes would be necessary.
'As Miss O'Reilly seems to depend on the shock of using a murdered pig as a prop, perhaps lacking the talent to make it as a proper artist, may we suggest she take up a day job instead to pay the bills. Cruelty is not entertainment', the spokesperson said. But we must not forget that the entire show is being held with PETA backing it up.
And again, we ask: where do we draw the line? And the question stands not only in this isolated case, of PETA trying to make a statement, but in reference to art in general. Can a live naked woman with a pig in her arms and with blood spurted all over the bed that she sits on be called 'art'?
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