Provocative art?

I watched a tv show last week called "Safari" which is about culture stuff and art and so on.

That nights show was about feminist artists, and abortion and other issues that women can relate to.

They had this thing about this Swedish feminist artist, who had decided to make a sort of exhibition called something like "Birthday Party For Happy Aborted Children".

She had made all these cakes shaped as small foeteses and said that her intention with this little birthday party, was to provoke and remove the taboo around abortion, which so many women will have to go through. I have to say, before I continue that this "artist" once masturbated in front of her cat, and recorded it on tape and called it art so...

Anyways, she had this exhibition in Bergen, one of the cities in Norway that contains most free and freaky people, so I'm not exactly impressed.

I mean, what is she trying to get at? She's in Norway, whith total freedom of speach, where there are no demonstrators standing outside the locals waiting to stone her or disfigure her face because of the exhibition.

I would respect her so much more if she was actually at the risk of being arrested.

If she went down to, say, an Amish village, or maybe Iran and did this, I would probably see the point, but she isn't risking anything.

This week there will be a thing about this other artist who takes pictures of naked people in the middle of New York, and gets arressted almost every time.

Somehow I feel that that is a little more impressive, because he is actually provoking someone, whilst this swedish lady is doing nothing like that. All she is accomplishing is to annoy a couple of women, and maybe a couple of men, but there is no "revolution".

That's my thought for the day... tudluh!