FOF #744 - Art Abuse - 04.22.08

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Enrique Iglesias wants everyone to know he's got a HUGE cockPoor Enrique Iglesias! The dreamy son of latin crooner Julio Iglesias is so fed up from people thinking he has a small penis that he’s issued a press release stating he has a large dick.

I believe you Enrique, but we still need visual confirmation.

About six years ago, Enrique joked in an interivew that he couldn’t find condoms small enough to fit his manhood. Now, he’s sick of being called Little Dicked Enrique, so he told Showbiz Spy says, “I said I had a small penis as a joke. And they took it literally when it is not the truth. So when people find out it’s not the case they are pleasantly surprised.”

Notice he said “PEOPLE” and not “WOMEN.” I wonder why is he playing the gender game with that neutral word “people.” If he’s into chicks, why not just say “So when girls find out” and not use the word people? What’s up with that Ricky? Are you easing out of the closet door? Because if you are, I can help you sacar la presion!

Aliza Shvarts creates an uproar by claiming she impregnated herself and miscarried over and over again for a yearHere’s a concept we talk about on the show- Art Abuse. People who create art based on their personal issues and force others to struggle with them.

The artist thinks they created the art to enlighten audiences, but in reality they punish their audience because they think the public isn’t as informed as they are. In the end nobody wins. It’s just another turn in the cycle of abuse.

Yale university student Aliza Shvartz claims to have inseminated herself and forced herself to miscarriage “as many times as possible” over a period of nine months. She intends to smear the bloody results on hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting and wrap it around a large cube suspended from the ceiling in order to “draw attention to the ambiguity surrounding form and function of a woman’s body.” Yale says that the induced pregnancies and miscarriages are just a hoax and that they are part of the whole performance piece. Aliza insists that “No one can say with 100-percent certainty that anything in the piece did or did not happen.”

Amy Burrow's art installation in MissouriOn a more inspiring note, Amy Burrow, a senior high school student in Independence, Missouri has caused quite a commotion with her installation art - a glass case filled with anti-gay posters designed to look like the ones used by protesters from Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church on top of it the words “LOVE CONQUERS ALL.”

Despite the shock to students, the school is standing by Amy, who’se work has gotten some negative responses from students.

Controversy is not a stranger to this real-life Lisa Simpson, who in the past has created and displayed artwork at her school about abortion and smoking. Remember the story of “Fag-Bug” owner Erin Davies? I’m always amazed by the way people react negatively when they see their own hate speech displayed back at them.

Richard Quest gets busted for drugs, being gaySome people rather bee seen as drug addicts than be gay. CNN personality Richard Quest was busted in Central Park with some drugs in his pocket, a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals and a sex toy in his boot. This guy knows how to party! When he was caught he quickly told the police about the drugs hoping they wouldn’t catch on that he was hustling for gay sex.

A poor German farmer married a woman he met on the internet only to discover on their wedding night that she had a penis. Hot. We aren’t sure what she was thinking but she must not be listening to the Feast of Fools, because if she was, she would know that you should always disclose what you got down below before you take your wedding vows. To do otherwise only leads to confusion and hard feelings. Be open and honest and find people who want you for who you are.

Stephen Hawking wearing his exoskeletonDo you believe in life on other planets? Steven Hawkings thinks there is. As reported by the Huffington Post, he believes life on other planets is very common but that intelligent life is probably very rare.

He thinks we need to get off this planet if our society to endure. He thinks great things will come if we are willing to explore the universe. And of course, he got a little sample of what space travel is like in zero gravity last year.

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I hate to wax too esoteric in re: yale girl art project, but here goes. More powerful than the asserted meaning of the project, I find a more interesting facet of this miscarriage/abortion project is the visceral effect it seems to engender from everyone that reads about it.

Now I am as pro-choice as the next person, but I have to admit something about the image of a girl forcing herself to miscarry over and over is disturbing to me on many levels. I’m not sure if I agree with the project if, in fact, it is real; I do know however that it seems to really press the issue of the outer limits of societal tolerance toward a woman’s autonomy over her reproductive capacity. It calls to mind the perennial debate of when life is created, when abortions are improper.

I obviously don’t have an answer to this, but I will conclude in saying that I have found it very interesting that a traditionally liberal and pro-choice media has expressed outrage at this project. Makes you wonder what people really think about the issue that they aren’t saying in polite company…

Forcing yourself to miscarry over and over again and then making an art project out of the remains is disturbing, that was her intent.

I knew a girl who used this type of procedure for birth control so the artist really isn’t that far off from what some women already do every month. The girl I knew barebacked and then before her expected period she would take herbs and supplements to induce menstruation. She considered it to be a natural form of birth control.

You can read more about it at http://www.sisterzeus.com/Sharing.htm which the author of the page describes as “My vision for this page is this…..A place where women can share their experiences using herbs for contraceptive and abortive purposes”

shvartz is a genius…the methods and themes she’s using are not that new to art but she has managed to be original enough to make headlines and make art a relevant topic in current events…the morality of abortion is irrelevant.

as the guys mentioned, chicago is a warzone. i blame it on the failure of chicago public schools, the DEET in our water supply, and the smoking ban creating a sidewalk culture.

I was laughing so hard with Marc singing and the big dick jokes I nearly fell on the floor. Coworkers were asking what’s so funny, but I obviously couldn’t say otherwise I’d get in trouble. So here’s one for you that I heard long ago: My dick is so big, I can fuck an elevator shaft!

On a lighter note, I really enjoyed Marc’s rendition of “The Farmer In The Dell”. Too funny!

Richard Quest a big ole’ leather bottom? Who would have thought! Maybe he will keep his outdoor scenes to a less conspicuous park!

Any artist who feels the need to include term like “inspire discourse” in an artist statement about a body of work that they haven’t even completed is just a hack. I’m guessing that she expecting conceptual art-starved patrons to be chomping at the bit to see the finished work, but it simply isn’t going to happen. If she were serious about this project, she would spend the nine months playing Roto-Rooter with her reproductive system, document the process, and present it without claiming to draw attention to anything.

Rhea- I love it when Marc sings too. :)

Jonzu sent this in. It’s more poop art http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/359967_earthart22.html

In the realm of poop art, the Susan Robb piece is actually pretty interesting. It’s kinetic, it was well executed and it’s intent isn’t so abstract that the artist is the only one who can relate to it.

When all is said and done, I can see Aliza Shvartz saying “I was going to do it, but I had so much homework and I broke up with my boyfriend because he got tired of storing my menstrual squeezins’ in his dorm.”

I loved when you guys talked about the recent ramblings from Stephen Hawking. Now I like the guy, but I agree with Fausto - it’s not like he comes up with anything that hasn’t already happened on Star Trek. Poor thing, he probably thinks he comes up with the concepts all by himself. That’s what happens when you teach an old man how to search Wikipedia.

So more star stuff! I love it when you guys talk popular science!

Just relisted to the show, and the Jesus cookies in my family are called “Jeezits” (say like cheese it)

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Originally from Erie, Pennsylvania, Marc Felion works as a bartender. As co-host and producer of the Feast of Fools podcast, he helped launch one of the most successful podcasts in the world. He lives in Andersonville with his partner and co-host Fausto Fernós. he loves to watch sci-fi tv shows, read murder mysteries and fix cocktails.
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