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1) The Trapholt Art Museum in Kolding, Denmark:
A display opened Friday that
features 10 goldfish each swimming in its own blender.
Two fish were blended at the opening. Kolding police ordered the plugs
pulled after an animal-rights group complained.
But on Sunday, the blenders were plugged in, and museum director Peter Meyer
said five more fish were blended. {Do not eat lunch in the museum cafeteria}
The blenders can be turned on by patrons.
Meyer said the work doesn't encourage people to blend the fish, but instead
addresses ethical questions in society.
"We have abortions and we have respirators where we choose whether to keep
people alive or not," Meyer explained. "We have become rulers of the
decision on life and death in a new way."
The full exhibit by artist Marco Evaristti includes the blenders on a table,
a nude picture with blackened eyes and a bazooka missile surrounded by tubes
of lipstick.
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2) SANTIAGO: (still living in the 70's)
A judge in Chile agreed on Monday to look into a
lawsuit against the builders of a glass house inside which a young
woman undressed and showered one
block from the presidential palace as part of an art project.
Santiago-based Judge Jorge Colvin agreed to investigate a lawsuit
presented by lawyer Rene Trincado,
who alleges that the project breaks a vaguely worded part of the
Constitution that prohibits immoral and bad conduct. As part of
the government-funded project, which
debuted on Tuesday, actress and university student Daniella Tobar, 21,
slept, used the bathroom, ate, brushed her
teeth, read and talked on the phone inside the simple, one-room
transparent house in an attempt to accustom Chileans to seeing these
daily actions, one of its
architects, Arturo Torres, told reporters earlier.
The building is in
the heart of downtown Santiago next to a bank and church and built in
an empty, weed-filled lot across the
street from the stock exchange. The house, built especially for the
project, is surrounded by a wall, but passersby
can easily peer over it.'
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