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UK Tax Use on Display - 8/18/2006 9:45:24 AM

Mercnbeth

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It will be great to get back to the UK. Haven't been there in a couple years, but obviously all the social issues are well funded and moving toward the solution. With money to burn you can now, one at a time, go to the theater to see a woman dance with a dead pig. Oh yeah, she's naked.

And they say true art in the theater is dying? I may wait though for the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical version.

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Kira O'Reilly will provide her own answer today by spending four hours naked, hugging a dead pig - at the taxpayer's expense. The controversial Irish performance artist will invite one person at a time to watch her sit in a specially-constructed set and perform a 'crushing slow dance' with the carcass in her arms.
Gallery director James Green defended the show as a 'very personal piece of work'. He said: 'This is a challenging piece of work and exactly the kind of show we should be delivering.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=401165&in_page_id=1770&in_a_source=

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RE: UK Tax Use on Display - 8/18/2006 10:09:49 AM

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Thats what you get when a Welfare State spirals out of control.
One piece of ART? consisted of an unmade bed with dirty Panties on display.

Marvellous ennit ?

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RE: UK Tax Use on Display - 8/18/2006 10:11:03 AM

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Growing up and living in the UK was always a surreal experience. I don't mind bizarre people and happenings but there is enough bizarre people and events in the UK for free without having to pay high taxes for the privilege. Though this just smacks of trying to shock for the sake of publicity. It is time all funding stopped for the arts and let the arts survive under their own steam. As an artist that has never had subsidies nor ever claimed any, this sort of stuff makes my blood boil. Bad idea, bad art and a complete waste of time and effort.

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RE: UK Tax Use on Display - 8/20/2006 7:42:38 AM

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In Cleveland, downtown, surely costing millions of dollars stands a statue of a rubber stamp. Oriented so you can see the working end, the stamp would stamp the word "FREE".

We have an even better one that looks like monkey bars for a 14 foot being, which has sunk diagonally into the cement.

That one doesn't bother me as much as the rubber stamp one, first of all I'm sure it was not without cost, and if it is supposed to say we are free that is a lie. And then even if we are free, it depicts that we are free by virtue of some rubber stamp, not those who fought and died. It blatantly asserts that we do not have to work or strive for freedom, all we need is someone in big brother government stamping our papers to make us free. As if freedom is their's to bestow.

Someone said "That's what happens when.....", I couldn't agree more.

I would rather dance with a pig.

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