KILLED IN THE NAME OF ART"" SIGN PETITION PLEASE""

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I have just seen this posted on another forum if you want any more info google his name but be aware of distressing pics PLEASE ALL SIGN

In 2007, an 'artist' called Guillermo Vargas Habacuc caught a stray dog on the street, tied it up on a short leash to the wall of an art gallery and left it there to die slowly of hunger and thirst. Over the next few days, the artist himself and visitors to the gallery watched impassively as this happened. Now the prestigious Central American Biennial of Art has decided that this was art and has asked Vargas Habacuc to repeat his actions in the Biennial of 2008. If you don't believe it, Google the artist's name... Please sign the petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/13031953/

On the petition page, the four things it asks for are name, email, town and country. The rest is in English, I think.
 
Have done and sent emails to the galleries, but did not send him a message as I felt that would be a waste of effort on a sicko like him. Oh and I passed it on too!!!!

Just wondering if it's worth contacting the Costa Rica Government on mass and threatening not to go there on holiday, since that's a huge source of income it might hit home!!!!
 
Absolutely disgusting. This 'artist' is seriously sick, and the fact that people could watch this poor animal suffer just amazes me. Everyone involved in this, the galleries etc. should be totally ashamed!
Totally disgusted
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Have tried to sign the petition but don't know what the last required element means 'PaAs' and it won't let me continue without it.

Doubt very much if a few hundred or even thousand signatures will make any difference to a nation that could even contemplate this evil thing as art but anything that might help I guess is better than doing nothing
 
I just Googled this to see what came up and found this on a blog

This was posted by someone who tried to intervene to prevent the 2008 exhibit. Apparantly.

How true either story is I don't know but I like to think that no civilised group of people could actually watch a dog starve to death. In my fluffy bunny world people are only ever nice to animals.

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just received more information from the director of the gallery who has informed me that the dog had been fed regularly by the artist and the dog really did escape. I asked what they had intended to do after the exhibit and she said that she intended to take the dog to her farm.

I also asked this: didn’t any viewers protest & try to release the dog during the exhibit if they thought that the dog was really being starved to death?

Her reply: no one protested nor tried to release the dog. Most of the audience were young artists who surely assumed that the dog was not going to starve. Next day, when the dog was already gone, two or three young women artists came to offer to adopt the dog.
 
Its Country I just put county then country

Oh and found the Costa Rica Gov't website
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl...6GB237%26sa%3DX
So will be sending the letter to them with a bit of a slant on the damage it's causing to the tourist industry and saying I will not visit a country that condones this!!!

On the right hand side, under the heading At Home Presidential we welcome your comments! press Contactenos. You just need to cut and paste your letter into the comments section kindly translated by Google!!
 
That dog in the picture doesn't look like it has been fed in a while to me, bit of a pathetic attempt at positive spin do we think ? Or just plain B*ll*cks and damage limitation?

Even if it survived its cruel just tying a dog up and leaving it there like that!
 
okay, I don't normally get involved in these forum debates, but look at this:

http://www.care2.com/c2c/share/detail/514625

the dog may have been about to die anyway, doesn't look good...or maybe it lived happily ever after at the nice lady's farm....

Any way we all know it's sick whatever the outcome, people on this forum are only here for their interest and compassion in animals. So I'm afraid i don't see the point in presenting an alternative argument for this one...It is just bad...
 
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Any way we all know it's sick whatever the outcome, people on this forum are only here for their interest and compassion in animals. So I'm afraid i don't see the point in presenting an alternative argument for this one...It is just bad...

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If the alternative argument is that it didn't happen then there is a point! Tying a dog up isn't a crime and isn't unusual and if the dog was in fact given food and water then the only bad thing is that it's a crappy piece of art. Remember this did not happen in England. Stray dogs in that country are treated like vermin and are poisoned, shot, starving and cruelly treated so if all this dog had to endure was spend 4 days being gawped at it was the least of his worries!
 
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