TINKEBELL. at AT5 (SAVE THE PETS1)

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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[undeadmaudie]

haha, just die, you twisted bitch. The police should lock you up for life. You can't talk to animals, no matter how hard you try, so you can't say the damn cat was depressed. And still, it's no reason for you to MURDER it and turn it into a bag, you sick, twisted FREAK.

[ertfer]

these hamsterballs should be forbidden!

[ritavegan]

FUCKING WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­RE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shanoa19]

No entiendo lo ke dice el video ): alguien me puede explicar? Sé ke ella es una maldita, pero no entiendo de ké trata el vid

[monik81394]

Averguenzas a toda la comunidad de artistas del mundo. Eres una enferma mental, lo que tu haces no es arte! No intentes igualarte con verdaderos artistas. Eres tan poca cosa que la única forma de que alguien repare en tus "creaciones" es cometiendo estas aberraciones. Dedícate a otra cosa o intérnate en un hospital psiquiátrico y le haces un favor a la comunidad.

Eres patética

[monik81394]

Embarrassed the entire community of artists in the world. You're mentally ill, what you do is not art! Do not try to equal you with real artists. You're so little that the only way that someone noticed your "creations" is committing these aberrations. Stick to something else or Get inside a psychiatric hospital and do a favor to the community.

you're pathetic

[guillomat]

Asesina!!!!!! I want a dress made of tinkebell!!!!!!!!!

Stop killing animals you little bitch!

[thehomelessguy]

Anyone calling for harm to happen to this artist is a hypocrite. Animals are for eating.

[SoStefanii]

Sick Bitch...



[Gienzelientje8875]

wtf wat een fucking koeienkut ben jij!

jij denkt wel goed te zijn, maar we heben je 'kunstwerkjes' wel gezien

we gaan jou lekker dod maken als je griep heb afgekloven kut dat je bent