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August 17, 2005
Art? Of course. Look at the red wall daubings.
It has to be said that I don't like modern art. At all. Generally, if it's cubism or beyond, it is almost guaranteed to be an exibit I'll stroll past without pause. I am a self confessed heathen when it comes to such things. Colours and blurred or shapless forms fail to move me. But this is... Just, hell, no.
This latest project, a functional suitcase bomb, will be included in a large art exhibition that will open under the auspices of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council a few days before Sept. 11 He said the strength of the bomb would be equivalent to “about four pounds of TNT. It doesn’t sound like much," he allowed, “but it’s enough to kill everyone in the gallery."
Bad taste? Not at all, dear chap, it's all meant to be a bold, transgressive work in this age of terrorism. A work to confound your emotions, expand your mind. It's art, you are not sophisticated enough to comprehend the lofty implications and moral exhorations this work exudes.
Mr. Hackett’s bomb is designed to be triggered from “anywhere else in the world—you call a cell phone.” He said that he had already purchased the cell-phone trigger. Only he knows the number—but, of course, he has no plans to explode it. "It won’t go off,” said Seth Cameron, creative director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Did Mr. Cameron feel safe with the bomb’s construction? “Given Chris’ illustrious past, at first, no. Basically, I’m just making him swear up and down that he’s not going to …. ” He trailed off. “It’s one thing for him to blow himself up, but when it comes to other people … I’m just crossing my fingers.”
Illustrious past? The one with an arrest for illegal posession of two AK-47s, a 9mmk pistol, pump action shotgun and a sten gun, on which he is on bail for. And he promised not to make it go boom. Cross your fingers and pray he takes those uppers for the duration.
I'm looking forward to the bomb squad taking out the exhibit with a few charges.
Or perhaps an advance entry to the Darwin Awards?
And the cynic in me screams "Publicity stunt."
Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at August 17, 2005 09:58 PM
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