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THE ART OF SHITTING
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THE ART OF SHITTING  Recently, Mikala Dwyer staged a live performance of Goldene Bend’er at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne. The show involves six cloaked-and-masked dancers defecating while sitting on transparent glass seats in full view of the audience. The artist Mikala Dwyer describes defecating as “humanity’s most democratic of act”. She argues that “shit has a great truth to it”: “From royalty to supermodels to politicians and the tiniest newborn baby, we all participate in this necessary biological function”. The artist also joined in to have a shit with the dancers. She found communal shitting as “quite liberating and empowering” and commended the dancers for being “very brave and generous of them that they were willing to put themselves through a bizarre situation like this within the context of art”. The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, in receipt of taxpayers’ money from the Australia Council, defended Mikala Dwyer’s show stating that “We are champions for artists” and that the artist “wanted to work with a material that has a truth and universality”. One critic argued that “there's no longer anything original or particularly provocative about bowel movements presented as art” and dismissed the show as “taxpayer-subsidised pooing”. Would you have gone to see this show? Is shit art shit or art? What is art? Should taxpayers fund art? Are you comfortable having a shit in front of someone else? Is scat a turn-on or a turn-off? |
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It's a bit childish, isn't it? Shitting is no more democratic or essential than breathing, eating, drinking and pissing. As we all do it there's no need to call a demonstration of it "art". It's just an infantile attempt at provocation - "Oooo... how rude!" 
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It's a bit childish, isn't it? Shitting is no more democratic or essential than breathing, eating, drinking and pissing. As we all do it there's no need to call a demonstration of it "art". It's just an infantile attempt at provocation - "Oooo... how rude!"  None of them have a toilet roll at hand, nor a sink to wash their hands!
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It's a bit childish, isn't it? Shitting is no more democratic or essential than breathing, eating, drinking and pissing. As we all do it there's no need to call a demonstration of it "art". It's just an infantile attempt at provocation - "Oooo... how rude!"
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Sadly, it probably doesn't say much for us Australians, if that is the best form of art we can come up with. 
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PS Where the heck do you find some of this stuff???? 
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PS Where the heck do you find some of this stuff????
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lol. Dr S you are a VERY interesting man. 
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lol. Dr S you are a VERY interesting man.
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The show was not specifically subsidised but the Melbourne arts centre is (or, perhaps after this show, was subsidised!).
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