Exhibition tackles art's 'last taboo' - 30 Years of Crap in Contemporary Art

Ananova ^ | June 19, 2003

[Jimmyclyde]

Exhibition tackles art's 'last taboo' - excrement

A new art exhibition on the theme of excrement has opened in Canada.

Scatalogue: 30 Years of Crap in Contemporary Art, is on display at Ottawa's SAW Gallery.

It includes a statue of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney holding a piece of faeces in his hand.

The exhibition also features soiled trousers, freeze-dried dung and cow pie clocks, reports Canadian Press.

Curator Stefan St-Laurent believes contemporary art has become conservative.

He said: "We came up with this idea because we were thinking: what's the last remaining taboo in contemporary art?"

But local MP Chuck Strahl called it a waste of taxpayers' money. The gallery receives 75% of its funding from the Ottawa city, Ontario and federal governments.

Story filed: 10:33 Thursday 19th June 2003

[Jimmyclyde]

BUMP

[camle]

ah yes, tax dollars well spent!

[goldstategop]

This is art? Yawn.... I don't look at this postmodern shit anyway. I apologize for the off color language but in this case I think it fits what's on display in this Canadian exhibition.

[bannie]

"Taboo"?

Health issue and decency...common decency.

[WorkingClassFilth]

That's kinda' redundant, isn't it? I mean, modern art for thirty years has been crap, right? What do I know? I'm just another uncouth working class filth.

[ex-Texan]

Just another sign we are living in the "End Times."

[Barry Goldwater]

Ask any artist: "What is art?" and they'll seriously tell you that it is "anything". That's only the beginning. Next you'll need an "art interpretor" to tell you what you are looking at.

[LiteKeeper]

SITREP

[PPHSFL]

Q. What's the difference between art and porn?

A. A government grant!

(From one of the best TV comedies in recent years, Family Guy.)

[Damocles]

DUMP...errr....BUMP!!

[maryz]

That's only the beginning. Next you'll need an "art interpretor" to tell you what you are looking at.

You're a little late to that party -- Read Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word.

[Abe Froman]

"What's the difference between modern art and a bucket of shit?"

LOL

[martin gibson]

Read Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word.

Dittos...this is a great read.

[Nowhere Man]

First Terrance & Phillip, then the homosexual marriage thing, now this. I'm beginning to wonder if Canada is worshipping a new god, Sterculius, Roman god of feces. B-P Seems like all the news out of Canada is of a scatological nature.

Dark humor aside, I need it for my sanity, it's a shame to see Canada go down the crapper like that. Time to invade I guess.

[Squawk 8888]

it's a shame to see Canada go down the crapper like that. Time to invade I guess.

Yeah, so you can expose us to more tasteful art such as the work of Robert Mapplethorpe.

[Nowhere Man]

Yeah, so you can expose us to more tasteful art such as the work of Robert Mapplethorpe.

Yeah, you got me there I'm afraid, we have the same BS down here so I guess if yuns are going down the crapper, we are the next one after you. B-( You got a point though, we got our own house to clean up here as well. Maybe we all should join together and clean up both our houses.

I'm just kind of grumpy at this week's ruling up there in Canada about homosexual marriage and I guess I'm just letting off some steam. I know I live in the United States, but really these shenanigans from the left affect us all no matter if you're from th United States, Canada, UK, Australia, and so on. I think we all should ban together at some point.