#provocative art

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instagram.com/lizabluesg/ 2023/12/27

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The revolution will be branded.

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Teresa Brutcher

[giulietta-hearthful]

"With the action 'Eco Eco Human Milk,' I wanted to provoke a reaction from the accidental audience regarding products made from human milk. My intention was neither to persuade people to consume human or any other kind of milk nor to dissuade them. My stance on consuming milk in adulthood, whether human or from other species, is not relevant in the context of this action.

What interested me most were the reactions of people who were disgusted by these products but regularly consume milk and dairy products from other animals. I found the discussions that arose around the stand fascinating, but what was truly crucial for me—and what I believe I achieved—was that some visitors, before this event, had never really thought about topics related to the consumption or non-consumption of milk and dairy products at all.

They started questioning whose milk is intended for whom and why human milk is considered the most repulsive, even though, as I highlighted in the slogan, it is the only milk inherently meant for humans. A few visitors left the stand with a new 'bug in their ear,' and I consider that the key success of this work."

—Tajči Čekada, 2017.

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Meike Hakkaart ~ Thirst instagram.com/artofmaquenda

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one of my guilty art pleasures is that i am kind of intrigued by the provocative artist Ibi-Pippi even though she is widely regarded to be part of a circle of right-wing artists in Denmark. she is probably most known - outside of Denmark - for a piece where she 'develops' the modification painting The Disquieting Duckling by Asger Jorn by entering the Jorn Museum in Silkeborg and drawing/gluing directly onto the canvas in the same manner as Jorn did when he first produced the art piece out of an pastoral painting.

the 'original' painting (modified only once), the disquieting duckling by asger jorn

she is now facing 1,5 years of unconditional imprisonment (which is a harsh sentence in Denmark) and the art piece is widely recognised as vandalism. however, I think this raises some interesting questions about what we regard as hard - how come that we celebrate Asger Jorn for 'détourning' a pastoral painting and exhibits his disquieting duckling but shun Ibi-Pippi for doing the same? it can be argued that the difference is that Jorn legally acquired his painting before modifying it whereas Ibi-Pippi went into a museum to make her art piece - but even though this certainly accounts for the legal side of the question (why only Ibi-Pippi has to go to jail) it doesn't explain why Ibi-Pippis painting is considered morally and aesthetically revolting.

the re-modified painting by ibi-pippi

another way to enquire is to say, well, Asger Jorn improved an otherwise boring painting that we did not consider to hold any special aesthetic value whereas Ibi-Pippi destroyed what we consider to be a masterpiece. However, not many people cared for The Disquieting Duckling before it got defaced so it's not so obvious what was really lost here - we have a lot of Jorn's other détournement pieces and the piece in question also still exists, albeit in a new form. it has probably lost monetary value but again, is this how we define art?

anyway, i think it's really interesting actually and i think it asks a lot of needed questions about what we see as art and what we doesn't see as art in a way that is still relevant and thought provoking. i think too often the question 'what is art?' is asked in a way that has now become un-interesting, by repeating what is basically just Duchamp's fountain. this is also a great piece and i think that it is extremely interesting that Ibi-Pippi is rarely being read in this tradition but is instead being continuously read in the tradition that is pure vandalism and destruction.

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