Artist's protest feels the noose
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It looks like sh1t, smells like sh1t, even feels like sh1t. But I guess you just have to taste it too to confirm that it is sh1t, eh?Originally posted by M©+square:You see?
The media is indeed powerful.
The media uses word play to form sensation and emotions of audience through this word 'Protest'
But is it really a protest? Did the artist meant it that way? Was it the exact expression of the artist and his very own words to use his artwork to 'protest' against the recent case?
These are sensitive words which spurs the reaction of readers.
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I'm not here to argue, i personally feel that it's the press fault.Originally posted by Rexdriver:It looks like sh1t, smells like sh1t, even feels like sh1t. But I guess you just have to taste it too to confirm that it is sh1t, eh?
However to respond to your statement.
Have you wonder how 'protest' looks like, smell like and feels like? Let me know how 'Protest' taste like too, ok? -
Noose, stool and execution number? Speaks volumes if you ask me.Originally posted by M©+square:I'm not here to argue, i personally feel that it's the press fault.
However to respond to your statement.
Have you wonder how 'protest' looks like, smell like and feels like? Let me know how 'Protest' taste like too, ok? -
I could have done the same thing and wouldn't say it is a protest.Originally posted by Rexdriver:Noose, stool and execution number? Speaks volumes if you ask me.
Interpretation.....All about Expression and interpretation from viewers.
Artist must have voice to speak on and about the societies on going issues.
If people choose to see it as a 'protest', too bad for him(artist) as well as the viewer(who couldn't see it in the artist's point of view).
Freedom to Expression
And Freedom to interprete
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This is not some abstract art or representation trying to capture emotions, moods or motiffs that is open to interpretation. The references are quite explicit. In this case I would say that it looks like, smells like and feels like. I'm content to leave it at that and call it protest, and I don't think anyone can say that I'm unreasonable in doing so.
It is sad that the school should exercise self-censorship though. -
Like i've posted before. The budding Artist was insensitive in the display of his works.Originally posted by Rexdriver:This is not some abstract art or representation trying to capture emotions, moods or motiffs that is open to interpretation. The references are quite explicit. In this case I would say that it looks like, smells like and feels like. I'm content to leave it at that and call it protest, and I don't think anyone can say that I'm unreasonable in doing so.
It is sad that the school should exercise self-censorship though.
However i'd take my stand that the installation work is Art, not protest.
If local viewers sees this as a protest, then i think ambitious artist should pack bag and leave Sg.
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The Protest Art that Wasn't
Matija Milkovic Biloslav, a Slovenian artist participating in Singapore's Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts Asian Arts Camp: Urbanonurban exhibition, had his installation (entitled "I am going to send you to a better place than this. God bless you.") altered after the exhibition opened. Logically, "I am going to send you ..." would seem to have referred to the imminent hanging of Australian citizen Nguyen Tuong Van, who was convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to death in Singapore in 2004. The installation included:
Nooses dangling from the ceiling.
Knocked-over stools.
One upright stool, upon which an unused piece of rope sat, and which was further embellished with a piece of paper that read, "C856." (This is Van's prisoner number.)
The name of the piece, itself, is that phrase Singapore's veteran hangman, Darshan Singh, utters prior to opening the "trap door" during an execution. (With me so far on the "logically" part?)
However ... however ... after the exhibition's opening night, the numbered paper was removed, an Australian newspaper was threatened with a lawsuit if it published an image of Biloslav's installation and Lasalle-SIA officials have vehemently denied the piece was, in any way, political. It was all coincidental, in fact. Interesting to note that while political art is not, strictly speaking, illegal in Singapore (though it is considered "out of bounds"), visiting artist Biloslav's was the lone voice from within Singapore saying anything at all about Van's upcoming execution - something that has caused a public uproar elsewhere. The execution is scheduled for Friday, December 2, 2005. The Urbanonurban exhibition closed today.
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Pictures from the Installation
http://voctir.blogspot.com/2005/11/what-lasalle-does-not-want-you-to-see.html
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Quote from http://blog.gerek.org/2005/11/monkey-do-monkey-pain.php
Milenko Prvacki, dean of fine arts at Lasalle School of the Arts, who created the program, said: "I don't think it's a political statement in this case ... it's not fair to ask so much about it because he doesn't know so much about it, he's an outsider." The artist, Matija Biloslavic, from Slovenia, said he preferred to let the work speak for itself. He has worked in Singapore for the past 14 years, since he fled the Yugoslavian civil war, and said he had never felt constrained as an artist.
But a Singaporean artist from the art camp said it was "quite hard" to do political art in his country. "If we did (the hanging) we would be more subtle," he said. -
Logically one would think this as capital punishment.Originally posted by Rexdriver:Noose, stool and execution number? Speaks volumes if you ask me.
If no execution numbers are inside, I would accept this as a suicide art piece. But the execution number is inside.......... -
We need to come to a point where a protest is seen as a form of expression and not a threat to social order or public security.Originally posted by Rexdriver:This is not some abstract art or representation trying to capture emotions, moods or motiffs that is open to interpretation. The references are quite explicit. In this case I would say that it looks like, smells like and feels like. I'm content to leave it at that and call it protest, and I don't think anyone can say that I'm unreasonable in doing so.
It is sad that the school should exercise self-censorship though. -
Protest a form of expression? First time hear leh. Peaceful protest maybe.Originally posted by LazerLordz:We need to come to a point where a protest is seen as a form of expression and not a threat to social order or public security. -
Of course peaceful and legal ones.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Protest a form of expression? First time hear leh. Peaceful protest maybe.
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Art could be expressed for different infinite purposes.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Protest a form of expression? First time hear leh. Peaceful protest maybe.
Protest against immorality, against traditionalist, against censorship, against child abuse, against drugs, against government control, governmental issues and social issues.
Campaign for sexual freedom, gayism/homosexuality, pornography, work which causes controversial discussion and testing publics acceptance .etc
Recent film, French Movie 'Irreversible' - Crap or Art?
"Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."
--Picasso
Of cos, in local context, we have to becareful how we present art as. -
Protest this certainly is.
Art????
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I know that. Seen a lot of art pieces protesting against a lot of things.Originally posted by M©+square:Art could be expressed for different infinite purposes.
Protest against immorality, against traditionalist, against censorship, against child abuse, against drugs, against government control, governmental issues and social issues.
Campaign for sexual freedom, gayism/homosexuality, pornography, work which causes controversial discussion and testing publics acceptance .etc
Recent film, French Movie 'Irreversible' - Crap or Art?
"Art is not chaste. Those ill prepared should be allowed no contact with art. Art is dangerous. If it is chaste, it is not art."
--Picasso
Of cos, in local context, we have to becareful how we present art as.
For Picasso's quote, I don't quite agree. Everybody has their own standard of whether to accept things. For example, some people feel that homosexuality is alright, but some people feel that it is wrong. It is not about whether we are prepared to accept it and have contact with art. Art makes the world complete. No contact with art, humans will be barbarians. -
And Singapore is well on the way back to 2006 BC.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:I know that. Seen a lot of art pieces protesting against a lot of things.
For Picasso's quote, I don't quite agree. Everybody has their own standard of whether to accept things. For example, some people feel that homosexuality is alright, but some people feel that it is wrong. It is not about whether we are prepared to accept it and have contact with art. Art makes the world complete. No contact with art, humans will be barbarians. -
You may not agree with Picasso's quote, like i may not have to agree in the statement in every artistic context.Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:I know that. Seen a lot of art pieces protesting against a lot of things.
For Picasso's quote, I don't quite agree. Everybody has their own standard of whether to accept things. For example, some people feel that homosexuality is alright, but some people feel that it is wrong. It is not about whether we are prepared to accept it and have contact with art. Art makes the world complete. No contact with art, humans will be barbarians.
There are definitely Art pieces which offends or provokes.
There are many works which challenges people of their moral grounds.
I agree that everyone have their own standards. We might prefer certain works/artist and dislike some - aesthetic values
Art is boundless in interpretation, It's about appreciation.
I'm not sure though, how Art have made the world complete. -
This work from that Foreign Artist is open for interpretation, to me, i find that it's insensitive...but not amounting to political uproar.Originally posted by oxford mushroom:Protest this certainly is.
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Ask a local artist to do this, he will have no balls.That's why we are seeing what we have gone without for the last few decades.The passion to speak your mind, even if the other sheep want to out baa you.Originally posted by M©+square:This work from that Foreign Artist is open for interpretation, to me, i find that it's insensitive...but not amounting to political uproar.