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[The combined efforts of Laurable and Darren Wershler-Henry give me this story and links about Belgian artist Wim Delvoye's plan to tattoo poems on pigs. Delvoye is the infamous maker of the "Cloaca" machine, which had the ability to digest food and also produce waste, which would drop out the far end of the machine onto a conveyor belt at regular intervals during the day (it was installed at the New Museum here in NY for several months two years ago). He had previously tattooed grown hogs with huge Harley Davidson logos and other designs, which doesn't seem so interesting until you see the photographs, which, in close up, look like the backs of huge, Mark McGwire-size rednecks (pardon the stereotype there). You can buy the book from Yahoo!:
Here's the story on the pig poems, courtesy ananova.com.
Vegetarian artist plans to tattoo piglets with poems
A Belgian animal rights group has protested against the plans of a famous vegetarian artist to tattoo piglets as a piece of art.
Wim Delvoye says he wants to tattoo 23 piglets weighing about 50kg with poems and then exhibit them during a cultural festival in Watou in the summer.
"At the end of the summer the pigs will weigh about 300kg and the poems will have reached a huge size", Mr Delvoye said.
The artist says he wants to protest against the attitude of considering art more and more as a financial investment.
"The value of paintings is rising and so will do the pigs", he said.
Because animal rights group Gaia has protested against the idea, Mr Delvoye has promised to take proper care of the animals.
The tattoo session will be filmed and all the animals will receive sedation before being tattooed.
"They won't feel anything", promised Mr Delvoye. "And we will use cream in the summer to prevent them getting sunburn.
"And after the festival the animals won't go to the butcher. I'm a convinced vegetarian myself and I'm against animals suffering."
Gaia is said to be pleased the artist and organisers of the festival have agreed to a meeting.
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