[alyasa]

So, what you're saying is that Art is a social construct, and by that definition, the act of starving the dog to death, even though carried out by the artist, has further ramifications than that? You're implying that the gallery and the patrons are just as responsible for the death of the dog as the artist is... Which is to say that they have become part of the artwork, an interactive social experiment on a large scale... They have become the statement that the artist wishes to make, that human beings are fine with suffering, as long as it's not theirs, and that most art poseurs are nothing more than elegant voyeurs, no better than the upskirt perverts that populate the cybermedia...