*marbusfeld
Banned
https://forcechange.com/369734/end-displays-of-live-animal-cruelty-at-museum/
Stop Dogfighting ‘Art’ Exhibit and Reptile Death Matches at Museum
Target:*Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Goal:*Shut down the “art” displays of dogs squaring off to fight and reptiles killing each other.
Animal welfare advocates are in an uproar over animal cruelty displays at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. One display includes live reptiles and insects “devouring each other” and the other shows dogs tethered to non-motorized treadmills preparing to fight. The dogs are facing one another in a scenario often used to train dogs for fighting. The Guggenheim is being accused of animal cruelty for hosting these exhibits.
The live dog display was first introduced in 2003 by artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu at the Today Museum in Bejing and included four pairs of pit-bull like dogs tethered to treadmills facing each other in close proximity. The piece was called “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other” and has been defended by Guggenheim as “an intentionally challenging and provocative artwork that seeks to examine and critique systems of power and control.” The demonstration is set to be displayed in October in New York City.
Some of the other displays involve various insects and reptiles such as the leopard gecko, centipedes, millipedes, grasshoppers, beetles, corn snakes and sulcata tortoises, some of which will be eaten during the display. The display is meant to be a metaphor for people who are different coexisting in one place but it’s unclear why actual killing of animals is necessary to communicate this “art.” Sign this petition to demand that the Guggenheim Museum in New York City close these displays and all other displays depicting animal cruelty immediately and send the animals in question to appropriate and ethical caretakers.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Armstrong,
It has come to our attention that there are two exhibits coming to your museum that will depict horrible animal abuse. They include “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other” by artists, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and “Theater of the World” by Huang Yong Ping.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opposes the use of animals in art if that use produces distress or pain to the animals. Distress and even death is present or referenced in both of these displays and we*demand that you cancel both exhibits. While we would like to support art exhibits, we simply cannot support such horrible conditions for the animals in these exhibits.
Sincerely,
Guggenheim Family*History. Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name from Gugenheim in Alsace or, less likely, Jugenheim (earlierGuggenheim) near Bensheim (Hesse). In both cases the second element is from Old High German heim 'homestead', while the first is of obscure and disputed etymology.
Guggenheim Name Meaning & Guggenheim Family History at ...
Stop Dogfighting ‘Art’ Exhibit and Reptile Death Matches at Museum
Target:*Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Goal:*Shut down the “art” displays of dogs squaring off to fight and reptiles killing each other.
Animal welfare advocates are in an uproar over animal cruelty displays at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. One display includes live reptiles and insects “devouring each other” and the other shows dogs tethered to non-motorized treadmills preparing to fight. The dogs are facing one another in a scenario often used to train dogs for fighting. The Guggenheim is being accused of animal cruelty for hosting these exhibits.
The live dog display was first introduced in 2003 by artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu at the Today Museum in Bejing and included four pairs of pit-bull like dogs tethered to treadmills facing each other in close proximity. The piece was called “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other” and has been defended by Guggenheim as “an intentionally challenging and provocative artwork that seeks to examine and critique systems of power and control.” The demonstration is set to be displayed in October in New York City.
Some of the other displays involve various insects and reptiles such as the leopard gecko, centipedes, millipedes, grasshoppers, beetles, corn snakes and sulcata tortoises, some of which will be eaten during the display. The display is meant to be a metaphor for people who are different coexisting in one place but it’s unclear why actual killing of animals is necessary to communicate this “art.” Sign this petition to demand that the Guggenheim Museum in New York City close these displays and all other displays depicting animal cruelty immediately and send the animals in question to appropriate and ethical caretakers.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Mr. Armstrong,
It has come to our attention that there are two exhibits coming to your museum that will depict horrible animal abuse. They include “Dogs That Cannot Touch Each Other” by artists, Sun Yuan and Peng Yu and “Theater of the World” by Huang Yong Ping.
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals opposes the use of animals in art if that use produces distress or pain to the animals. Distress and even death is present or referenced in both of these displays and we*demand that you cancel both exhibits. While we would like to support art exhibits, we simply cannot support such horrible conditions for the animals in these exhibits.
Sincerely,
Guggenheim Family*History. Jewish (western Ashkenazic): habitational name from Gugenheim in Alsace or, less likely, Jugenheim (earlierGuggenheim) near Bensheim (Hesse). In both cases the second element is from Old High German heim 'homestead', while the first is of obscure and disputed etymology.
Guggenheim Name Meaning & Guggenheim Family History at ...