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Originally Posted by Florya
If you actually took the time to look into this 'story' you would find out that the dog didn't die.
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Although you state that "anyone that actually takes the time to look into this 'story' will discover that the dog did not die." I looked into the story. I still don't know anything definitive.
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Originally Posted by Florya
According to the Humane Society's report the dog wasn't tied up for more than 3 hours at a time, was fed and watered regularly and was released, in good health, at the end of the installation.
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I found this at the Humane Society website.
http://www.hsus.org/contact_us/human...l#Q_dog_artist
Do you have an alternate link?
Wiki and other pages on the web say something to this effect:
A probe by the Humane Society revealed that the dog was in a state of starvation when it was captured and escaped after one day of captivity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Habacuc_Vargas
And, as far as I can determine, the exhibit lasted for more than one day. So, if the dog ran away in one day, then did he just make arrangements to find and obtain yet another stray dog to take its place, right?
As of yet, I cannot ascertain with any definitive certainty if any dog(s) died or not in connection to the exhibit(s).
At any rate, an animal, an intelligent animal that people normally keep as a pet, is being abused, at least on some level, in the installation. Florya opines that, after all, it's just a dog, and if it the "piece" provokes thought, then it is valid. Maybe so.
I'm still not sure about the validity since far too many "conceptual" works are piles of hodgepodge assembled by "artists" with little to no talent merely for shock value and often to support some half-baked sociopolitical idea.
But I will write that all along I figured that this was probably actually the case, that the dog was simply emaciated beforehand and that the artist did nothing to squash rumors that he was killing the dog when all he was doing is holding it up and suggesting we take a look; and that all the while he was affording the dog some meager sustenance on the sly as it were. Then again, I still don't know what to believe. And owing to the exhibits taking place in other countries, I also did consider that perhaps the guy really is starving stray dogs to death.