[Reader-list] San Francisco Ban Bill after Abdessemed show @SFAI

[TaraPrakash]

It is more of a mercy filling (that of the belly)

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From: "Prabhakar Singh" <prabhakardelhi at yahoo.com>
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> Is it some kind of mercy killing?
> Prabhakar
>
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kshmendra Kaul <kshmendra2005 at yahoo.com>
> To: reader-list at sarai.net; Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 July, 2008 5:11:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] San Francisco Ban Bill after Abdessemed show @ 
> SFAI
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> Kill the animals to eat them. That is OK.
>
> Kill them in a kindly manner. Be kind to them and then kill them.
>
> --- On Mon, 7/28/08, Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Naeem Mohaiemen <naeem.mohaiemen at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Reader-list] San Francisco Ban Bill after Abdessemed show @ SFAI
> To: reader-list at sarai.net
> Date: Monday, July 28, 2008, 2:27 AM
>
> New law proposed in response to exhibition
> It would criminalise those who harm animals when making art
> Charmaine Picard | 24.7.08 | Issue 193
>
> NEW YORK. A committee in San Francisco's city government has
> introduced a bill that would allow misdemeanour or felony criminal
> charges to be brought against any artist or financial backer who
> causes "the death, abuse or suffering of an animal" when making a
> work
> of art.
>
> San Francisco city commissioner Christine Garcia, who wrote the bill,
> told The Art Newspaper: "If you allow forums that find this type of
> work acceptable, more people will produce it and can gain fame from
> the suffering of animals." The bill, which is still in the process of
> being drafted, must go before the city legislature before it can
> become law.
>
> The proposal comes in response to a recent video installation by
> Algerian-French artist Adel Abdessemed at the San Francisco Art
> Institute (SFAI) showing the killing of six farm animals. The Art
> Institute was forced to close the show in late March after only one
> week when Abdessemed, curator Hou Hanru and staff members received a
> series of death threats from animal rights extremists (The Art
> Newspaper, May 2008, p3). The SFAI says that Abdessemed was
> documenting traditional methods of food production in Mexico and that
> no gratuitous violence took place to make the videos.
>
> In mid-March, the California-based animal rights group In Defense of
> Animals, which has testified before the city commission, sent an
> "action alert" email to 30,000 of its subscribers asking that members
> demand the immediate closure of Abdessemed's exhibition.
>
> At the time Okwui Enwezor, dean of academic affairs at SFAI, told us
> that the exhibition's sponsors, including the Andy Warhol Foundation
> and the Peter Norton Family Foundation, had sent letters in support of
> the show. The same exhibition attracted no protests when it was seen
> in Grenoble, France, earlier this year but was cancelled by curators
> in Glasgow in April.
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