IWA For Sunday, January 14, 2007

WARNING- The following is just flat out gross. It is intended for mature audiences and NOT intended for children or the squeamish. It deals with a concept that you may find offensive and or sick. Let this warning be noted.

Hey folks,


It’s SUNDAY!!! Time for the IWA. This is the first IWA that I feel strongly about the need to issue this warning. True or not, this is NOT for everyone.


You know, in this country we attempt to allow just about anything from pornography, sexual abuse, exploitation, and even all the way up to treason, all in the name of art. But this?

This has got to be one of the sickest things I have seen in a long time. According to the News.Com.AU-Artist cooks meal in own body fat By correspondents in Santiago January 13, 2007 09:12am,

"BON APPETIT," said Chilean artist Marco Evaristti as he presented his friends with his newest creation: meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction.

"Ladies and gentleman, bon appetit and may god bless," said Evaristti, a glass in his hand, to his dining companions seated Thursday night around a table in Santiago's Animal Gallery.

On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle a meatball made with oil Evaristti removed from his body in a liposuction procedure last year.

"The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result," he said, explaining the point of his creation.

"You are not a cannibal if you eat art," he added.

Evaristti produced 48 meatballs with his own fat, some of which would be canned and sold for $US4000 dollars for 10.

A veteran at shock-art, in an earlier work Evaristti invited people to kill fish by pressing the button on a blender the fish were held in.

Ok this guy is just plain sick. I do not care about the fish thing. I could careless about the Red Iceberg in Greenland. But "You are not a cannibal if you eat art,?" Then you have the fact that he is going to sell these meatballs for $4,000 US? Who in their right mind attended this party or will buy these meatballs. This is NOT art.

This guy is in serious need of mental help. No doubt about it. I really have nothing left to say about this one. Congratulations Mr. Evaristti, not only are you the Idiot of the Week, but you HAVE to be one of the top runners of the Idiot of the Year.

Sick, sick, man.
Peter