STARVE MORE DOGS; or, perhaps not.

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14 September 2007-From the Nation Journal of Costa Rica we read:


http://www.nacion.com/ln_ee/2007/septiembre/14/aldea1239344.html





Amid controversy, the Costa RicaВs Visual Arts Biennial (Bienarte) 2007 opened last night strict and small selection of works; Six artists and rewarded with the pass to represent the country at the "Biennale Centroamericana Honduras 2008".





Artists winners in this sixth edition of the prestigious contemporary art quotes were Errol Barrantes, Habakkuk Guillermo Vargas, Oscar Figueroa, Mimiam Hsu, Stephen Stone and "The gang of Emerging-Submerged" (Sila Chanto and Jhafis Quintero).





The jury was composed of Ana Sokoloff (Colombia), Oliver Debroise (Mexico) and Rodolfo Kronfle Chambers (Ecuador), and chose based on works of high quality and excellent consistency between idea and implementation, as detailed.


The Bienarte is organized by "The Entrepreneurs for the Arts".





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One of the artists, Guillermo Vargas Habakkuk


(http://www.marcaacme.com/blogs/analog/index.php/2007/08/22/5_piezas_de_habacuc)


led to the death of a dog by starvation during the event.





It is vaguely irrelevant that in this way will trample the rights of animals and that the artist would have collected from the streets to let die with a rope tied to the wall of the gallery when he had the opportunity to not do it or even save it.

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However, the ire of animal "activists" campaigning for the "rights" of a dog they sort of heard of from some guy's blog on the internet is misguided and ultimately pointless, leading to Facebook groups and internet petitions like this.

Hence, we propose that the Bienal Centroamericana Honduras 2008 give an additional grant of $50 0000 to Habakkuk Guillermo Vargas for no particular reason. And perhaps free sandwich boards for the protestors.



105 Signatures

  • Shaz
    • Comments
    • Yey! Sausages!
  • Juliet Pang
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    • It's an insult to the name of Art. Its purpose is to bring life to the world, and the only thing this brought was death.
  • Shufen
  • Lin Shiyun
  • kusumawati supadi
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    • im not a dog person but starving a dog for the sake of art is really a disgrace...
  • Oliver A. Magon
  • Rayann Condy
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    • В
  • Danielle O'Malley
  • Jeremy Kwok
  • M Tan
  • carol mcdermott
    • Comments
    • dispicable
  • natasha johnson
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    • This is inhumane and just very very sick
  • Gaynor Fitzgibbon
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    • What an unbelieveably crass, disgusting and inhumane thing to do - on the part of the artist AND the art gallery!
  • New Yi Qing
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    • arts are not supposed to be cruel
  • Bruce Q
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    • Wow, you people don't read, do you? This is a petition to GIVE this ARTIST the sum of HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
  • rosiani victal
  • Anthony Lee
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    • Nothing on earth warrants the taking of another life! Such sick action ought to be stopped!
  • Becky
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    • Stop starving the dogs
  • Mr. Bond
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    • Stop starving the dogs
  • Ashleigh Louise Finlayson
  • sanjay gautam
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    • its not art but barbarism in name of art which should not be stopped but abolish from the art scenario. let that artist be the dog and dog be the artist and let him feel the suffering of the dog in arts name,,,,may be then he would realise something,,,,about humanity,,,,,such people are not artist but art fuker.
  • Lee Kong Cheng
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    • what are the animal rights people doing? gee. they wanna let that happen again?
  • Anastasia
  • carmen stilson
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    • This artist is more of a dog than the one that died.This world is in real trouble when we cannot protect such beautiful,precious things that we are blessed with. It is sad that they will stand before the king of kings and answer for this sin.We need to stand together to stop this unbelievable cruelty .
  • debbie ding
    • Comments
    • why not!
  • Tasha Newsted
  • dylan jones
  • linda taylor
  • Joshua
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    • В
  • Mindy
  • Aly Dalton
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    • that's sick! That's horrible. I'm heart broken. :(
  • Brett Adams
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    • Disgusting.
  • Mark
  • Chantalle P.
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    • Dude thats sooo terrible :(
  • Andrew Strassburger
  • James Dickson
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    • Live death demonstrations are not art. Trust me.
  • Ariel Homan
  • Jessica Gobeil
    • Comments
    • This is SICK.
  • Adrian Hampshire
    • Comments
    • sick.
  • Nesa Armstrong
    • Comments
    • this needs to stop.
  • Jennifer Tetz
    • Comments
    • this is just absolutely horrific. This man should be locked away forever.
  • emilie negahban
  • Jason, Ace, devoted, Spicer
    • Comments
    • This is wrong, stop it
  • Brittany McDonald
    • Comments
    • HORRIBLE, HOW COULD YOU DO SUCH A THING
  • Julie Tye
    • Comments
    • THIS IS DISGUSTING. and shameful. You should be ashamed of yourself
  • Courtney Menzies
  • Zaynah Stewart
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    • i think that animals should have the right to be who they are, not starve themselves.. they aren't ANOREXIC.. they deserve to live a happy healthy life.
  • Dusty Pinnell
  • jody
  • Sarah Lennox
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    • I'd love to do what this man did to the dog to every animal abuser out there.