In the public performance 'Her name is Marilyn,..' by Katinka Simonse, the artist-designer
In the public performance 'Her name is Marilyn,..' by Katinka Simonse, the artist-designer takes a dead dog dressed in a white dress named Marilyn for a walk in Beverly Hills, L.A.. When asked what she is doing while dragging the animal over the streets, she consequently answers by saying 'Her name is Marilyn'. The performance undoubtably refers to the meaning of the animal within upper (middle) circles, in which much more then a living being, the animal is used as a commodity article: as part of an individuals carefully build image and ego, rather then being acknowledged as a being with own needs and characteristics. The oblivious character of the 'answer' that she provides her public with in this work, relates to the detached, fully commercially appropriated significance of animals in our present society.
Simonse performs by her alter-ego 'TINKEBELL.', a lady completely dressed in pink, referring to a completely innocent, sweet, naive girl, inflicting these symbols of friendlyness with acts of a violent nature. It is not only the performance itself that generates a reaction of shock, but especially the lines of text spoken by her alter ego 'TINKEBELL., for not only is the act of walking a dead dressed dog shamelessly executed, within the act itself, this is above all not acknowledged as such.
(THNX!!! Roel Wouters!!!!)
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In the public performance 'Her name is Sarah' by Katinka Simonse, the artist-designer take
In the public performance 'Her name is Sarah' by Katinka Simonse, the artist-designer takes a dead dog dressed in pink clothing named Sarah for a walk in downtown Chicago. When asked what she is doing while dragging the animal over the streets, she consequently answers by saying 'Her name is Sarah'. The performance undoubtably refers to the meaning of the animal within upper (middle) circles, in which much more then a living being, the animal is used as a commodity article: as part of an individuals carefully build image and ego, rather then being acknowledged as a being with own needs and characteristics. The oblivious character of the 'answer' that she provides her public with in this work, relates to the detached, fully commercially appropriated significance of animals in our present society.
Simonse performs by her alter-ego 'TINKEBELL.', a lady completely dressed in pink, referring to a completely innocent, sweet, naive girl, inflicting these symbols of friendlyness with acts of a violent nature. It is not only the performance itself that generates a reaction of shock, but especially the lines of text spoken by her alter ego 'TINKEBELL., for not only is the act of walking a dead dressed dog shamelessly executed, within the act itself, this is above all not acknowledged as such.
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In the public performance 'Her name is Sarah' by Katinka Simonse, the artist-designer take
In the public performance 'Her name is Sarah' by Katinka Simonse, the artist-designer takes a dead dog dressed in pink clothing named Sarah for a walk in downtown Chicago. When asked what she is doing while dragging the animal over the streets, she consequently answers by saying 'Her name is Sarah'. The performance undoubtably refers to the meaning of the animal within upper (middle) circles, in which much more then a living being, the animal is used as a commodity article: as part of an individuals carefully build image and ego, rather then being acknowledged as a being with own needs and characteristics. The oblivious character of the 'answer' that she provides her public with in this work, relates to the detached, fully commercially appropriated significance of animals in our present society.
Simonse performs by her alter-ego 'TINKEBELL.', a lady completely dressed in pink, referring to a completely innocent, sweet, naive girl, inflicting these symbols of friendlyness with acts of a violent nature. It is not only the performance itself that generates a reaction of shock, but especially the lines of text spoken by her alter ego 'TINKEBELL., for not only is the act of walking a dead dressed dog shamelessly executed, within the act itself, this is above all not acknowledged as such.
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Last Thursday the Society for the Protection of Animals raided an Amsterdam art gallery in
Last Thursday the Society for the Protection of Animals raided an Amsterdam art gallery in co-operation with the local police to free dozens of hamsters. The animals were part of an exhibition by artist Tinkebell (pseudonym of Katinka Simonse) called Empathy. In the exhibition hamsters were locked up in plastic, see-through play-balls, set in a recreated living room. With the exhibition Tinkebell wants to expose the "ambiguous morality of animal rights and environmental activists" by using the "often naïve ideas that people—activists—have about the concept of freedom in the animal world." The balls she uses (so called "run-about balls") are popular with pet owners, who use them to let their pets roam relatively free through the house "without the worry of escape or injury," as one merchant calls it.
The artist is in the dark about the why of the raid. "Nobody told me anything," she told Amsterdam TV channel AT5. According to AT5, Tinkebell and the galery owner will be questioned by the police next week.
Tinkebell caused an earlier uproar when she killed her three year old cat to turn it into a handbag. In the TV program De Wereld Draait Door she suggested that it was a mercy killing, claiming the cat was depressed.
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The making of a popple (cat part)
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The making of a popple (dog part)
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In het weekend van 30 juni en 1 juli, presenteerde ontwerper van discussies, TINKEBELL "SA
In het weekend van 30 juni en 1 juli, presenteerde ontwerper van discussies, TINKEBELL "SAVE THE MALES", een installatie die tijdens SALE#3 "Something Green " de mogelijkheid gaf mannelijke kuikens te kopen, die gebruikelijk vergast of geshreddered worden, gezien zij verder geen waarde hebben als consumptieproduct. Zij kondigde aan de niet opgekochte haantjes aan het einde van de SALE#3 manifestatie persoonlijk één voor één door de shredder te halen, zoals ook gebruikelijk is in de broederijen waar deze dieren worden gefokt.
De organisatie van Platform 21 (verantwoordelijk voor SALE#3) besloot op het laatste moment toestemming voor het werk in te trekken, alhoewel het concept al maanden van te voren bekend was gemaakt en zij de vormgever zelf uit hadden genodigd. Nadat de shredder uit de ruimte van SALE#3 werd ontvreemd, heeft een lid van diezelfde organisatie, dat anoniem wenst te blijven, het leven van alle overgebleven kuikens afgekocht om te voorkomen dat zij alsnog op het expositieterrein zouden worden gedood. Daarbij gaf bovengenoemd lid van de organisatie aan dat de kuikens alsnog zullen worden vernietigd, en dat de aankoop puur tot doel had het publiekelijk shredderen op het terrein van Platform 21 te voorkomen.
Nog die zelfde avond werd TINKEBELL. zondagavond rond negen uur op het Leidseplein in Amsterdam gearresteerd door de politie. De aanklacht die tegen haar was gericht luidde:"het voornemen hebben de Gezondheid- en welzijnswet voor dieren te overtreden.". Na een aantal uren te hebben vastgezeten bleek de organisatie van SALE#3 niet alleen een aanklacht te hebben ingediend, maar ook de kuikens afgegeven te hebben aan de autoriteiten. Deze hebben er voor gezorgd dat de haantjes, in ieder geval voorlopig, bij een vogelopvang geplaatst kunnen worden. Ook hier werden zij overigens in eerste instantie geweigerd, doch na een aantal media organen aan de telefoon gehad te hebben, is het blijkbaar moeiijk gebleken dit door te zetten. Of zij daar uiteindelijk ook echt mee zijn gered is nog maar de vraag, daar ook de vogelopvang geen raad weet met 51 hanen.
TINKEBELL. is voorlopig weer op vrije voeten. De officier van justitie zal bepalen of zij gerechtelijk vervolgd gaat worden.
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The White Rabbit toy (part of baby bunnie project)
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How to create a radiocontrolled guinea pig from your old teddybear, your old radiocontrole
How to create a radiocontrolled guinea pig from your old teddybear, your old radiocontroled car and your guinea pig pet?
thnx to Maxim Hartman!! LOOOVE YA !! :)
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