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Halloween Warning: the squeamish should probably squint and observe with artistic detachment
22 responses to “Ring Man”
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Ah, it reminds me of the exposition we had in Montréal until mid-September. Alas, I missed it. Check out the links in the site, you will like to see and learn some things about how the exhibit is done.
BODY WORLDS 2 by Gunther von Haggens.
A most appropriate photo for this time of year!
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I was going to go in Houston to see this awhile back but they strictly prohibited cameras… I should have gone anyway.
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Where did you took it ?
If you like that kind of "Flickry Medico Scientifical Introspection" maybe you ll like this HumanINside-set i took in Melbourn and Paris this year.
To skin or not to Skin …the squeamish dilemma =)
@The Rocketeer : You should …next time ; )
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Fantastic exhibition, caught it in Houston sans camera. Thanks for posting so I can re-live the memory.
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@schoschie: from my point of view here in Montréal, it was well accepted since we are known to be VERY open-minded.
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Saint Louis, Missouri has BODY WORLDS on exhibition right now. The only media stir seems to be about getting out to see it. No one seems to be too upset about it.
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I think the main controversy is the consent issue. I know I would have liked the personal touch of a note, something like "Hi, I’m Ned, and have donated my body to this exhibit. I had a nice life, though of course there were rough spots, and enjoyed chess and hiking. My favorite memory was of a camping trip with my wife and kids back in ’83. [Ned died at 66 of renal failure.]"
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For some reason I thought these two of your images would make an interesting diptych…
1. Negative Space, 2. Ring Man
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I heard they (he?) used Chinese prison convicts. Who presumably died of natural causes.
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Just heard about the Earthquake .
Hope everything is ok, and there was no structural damage for you. -
Too creepy for my taste (the exhibit, not the photo). I just can’t make myself see these installations as static objects. I see…well, a corpse.
And I know that this was done with the donor’s specific consent but there’s something about posing dead people in tableaus for the public’s amusement and personal profit that my sense of right and wrong fundamentally rejects.
I certainly don’t think that my own sense of right and wrong should be everybody’s, any more than I think PeTA folks ought to condemn me for supporting the use of animals in medical research. The reason why people shouldn’t judge others is because your personal sense of right and wrong could be right…or, well, wrong.
But isn’t it interesting that we all seem to have these things where our core programming rejects a concept on such a fundamental level that it never bubbles up into an intellectual issue?
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This exhibit is a wonderful thing to see! The 6th graders @ our school went to see it. I’ve viewed disections of cadavers, @ sports medicine conferences, but here you are able to really examine the details!
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andyi – i think of myself as fairly open-minded in many respects, and do completely understand the point you are making. i think it is the aura of mystique that GVH creates around his own public image, coupled with the postured aestheticisation of the corpses that creates a sense of deep unease over the intention and method behind his work.
equally, of course, he has captured many people’s imagination and brought renewed interest in biology, science and the wonder of the human form through relatively populist artistic means… which i tend to see as a good thing, regardless of his stupid hat *
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Hi, I’m an admin for a group called
The StockYard,
and we’d love to have this added to the group!This is fabulous!
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