"Goldfish in Blenders as an art"?

Question

guys tell me what u think about this piece of art that was displayed at a museum in western Denmark:


The art display at the small museum in western Denmark features 10 goldfish, each swimming in its own blender. The catch: Each blender can be turned on, depending on the viewer's whim.

The display, which opened Friday, has caused outrage among animal rights activists and drawn unusually large crowds to the Trapholt Art Museum. Two fish were blended at the opening, and police ordered the plugs pulled after a local group, the Union for the Protection of Animals, complained Museum director Peter Meyer said five more fish were blended on Sunday.

The museum in Kolding, 125 miles west of Copenhagen, is one of many smaller art exhibirtor in the Nordic country. It draws about 80000 visitors each year. This weekend, though, it had 1000 curious visitors - a very high off-season number, Meyer said.

Let me know if you guys support this art. Why or why not?

Answer 1

wow, that screams animal cruelty to me. It would have been fine if they didn't allow people to turn the blenders on.

Answer 2

Well, I think it is art because the artist is trying to make a point. But it also grosses me out that people would just blend up a goldfish. That's so cruel. But, that's probably the point the artist was trying to make. So I guess it's art AND cruel. It's not the artist's fault, though. It's the people who hit that puree button.

Answer 3

I think that the artist is trying to remind us all that the fate of our animal cousins is in our hands, especially marine life. We treat rivers and oceans, their home, as little more than giant toilets.

We humans tend to get our priorities all mixed up. We go out of our way to save the life of one or two living beings but we don't care about mass extinctions that can be traced back to our own hands.

Global Warming is a real issue but few people know that the health of our oceans is an even bigger issue. There is nothing less at stake here than the entire biomass of the ocean.

I don't like to see any living thing killed unnecessarily but c'mon people wake up - we are in the process of killing everything in our vast vast oceans - and we're all partly responsible.

Answer 4

This sounds like legitimate art to me because the artist is raising a real question about the audience's capacity to kill or engage in cruelty. The artist, remember is not killing a single goldfish. He is merely allowing people to exercise their own freedom to kill a goldfish. People can do that anyway if they want to, but when it is done publicly it is making a point.

Answer 5

I agree with megalomaniac's answer. It may seem bizarre. But, it raises an interesting question. We wonder if he had used synthetic goldfish if more people would have turned on the blender...