[Reader-list] in the name of Art

[inder salim]

Dear All

How mongoose are killed for fine art.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYRTuZeUgMM
The news form Meerut ( 2 hour bus journey from Delhi ) that 7000 Art
Brushes have been seized by police which have been made from 3500
forest Mongoose.  A massacre of animals for art.   I am sure  there
are  artist who go out to paint a mongoose in the park with a  brush
made from the dead mongoose  hair itself. Is it art?

We have Artists who draws animals on living animals. Is it Art?  Black
on the surface of a white living horse, White on the surface of a
living dark green Tortoise.

In the name of art
by Gullimero vergas , Artist from Costa Rica, who tied a dog in the
gallery space for the spectacle of his slow death. Forget animal
rights violation, but is it Art?

India has its own brand of Gullimero Vergas who kill a Goat for her
skin to make a  ' mashq' ( traditional water container) . The skin is
already available in the market, if one is dying to get a piece.  To
exhibit the video recording of the killing of a goat as work of art is
highly disturbing. Are we so insensitive  to the other ?

I wish teachers in Art colleges , art students and those who write on
art take some time to think about this disturbing aspect of our Art
Practice in India.
Do we need brushes which come from death to the  animals ?

ARTIST can make a brush from their own hair to paint whatever, or do
whatever, but not at the cost of animals.

Let us think of earth first and then Art.

Love
Inder salim--

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