Sorry the pictures are blurry; she’s sewing chicken skin to her breasts and genitals if it’s not clear. I do not know the context or meaning so if please feel free to add that to the comments if you know!
A profound performance?
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167 responses to “A profound performance?”
Haha Melissa. Sounds like an awesome porno.
Anyway yeah this is lame. But the chick is definitely fuckable. Dead chicken and all.
‘If the chicken didn’t like it, it would bite her’
^^^ Funniest comment ever!
oh she might not know or have thought through the consequences. I h ave a friend who did a performance art piece featuring an ice dildo.
And yes, it was just like that scene in A Christmas Story with the kid having his tongue stuck to the pole.
And it was NOT intended.
51^^ow. just… ow.
and i think the thing that is squicking people out (including me) is that she is sewing skin onto her skin. it wouldn’t matter if it was chicken skin, human skin, pig skin… there are all sorts of bacterial wonders on there that make me cringe.
Salmonella absolutely is a risk, and certainly can be blood-borne, Aaron (47). When it leaves the intestine and gets into other fun places like the liver is when people (or animals) get the most sick from it. When doing necropsies on calves, we’ve cultured salmonella from just about everywhere, including the lungs.
(Credentials for saying such things, and for necropsying calves? I’m a veterinarian.)
Since I presume she’s not planning on eating the chicken afterwards, I would guess that she cleaned it rather differently than for cooking–perhaps by soaking in bleach. This would help decrease the infection risk, anyway.
I don’t know for sure, but I’d agree that the most likely interpretation would be along the “women as meat” lines. The “hooker shoes” made perfect sense to me in that theory–adds to the porn imagery and the irony.
As for using the chicken in the performance; the bird is dead. I sincerely doubt that it had any cares beyond that point, and while one may argue that it’s a waste of food, I don’t understand the “poor chicken” comments. The chicken is certainly experiencing less pain from the whole thing than the girl is. (And before anyone flames me on that point, yes, I realize the girl chose it and the bird didn’t.)
I do like Jeanne’s comment (32) about combining the message of objectification of women with not seeing the worth of animals.
hahaha people bitching about animal rights about a piece of dead meat. thats kinda funny but not as funny as the comments about the chicken enjoying it and so on. I wonder if i stapled flowers to me if the same people would bitch about the rights of dead plants bein used as art
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm tasty
Wow, there are a lot of comments on here!
Coupla points-
-the dead chicken does nothing for me. At all. That having been said, the picture on the left is ohmygod hot. Does this matter to any one else? Nah, but if you’re the chic sewing the birdmeat on her naughty bits- ye’re hot.
-People do stupid stuff all the time, sometimes knowingly and sometimes not. Hell, I just got back from a 4.5 hour tattoos session (that’s 4.5 under the needle, 6+ in studio) with a nasty cold just barely on the way out. Stupid? Yeah. Am I gonna live? Yeah, probably, and so will she.
-I think it’s awesome how people care about animals. I really do. But if you really cared, why aren’t you out there protesting at a hog farm or cattle feed lot? Just, y’know, saying.
-”if the chicken didn’t like it it would bite her”- this comment wins any and all existing or non-existing awards for Best Commentary on ModBlog. Ever.
-the last point I was going to make was very deep and insightful and all that, but I just got back from getting tattooed (6000 pokes a minute X 60 minutes X 4.5 hours, you do the math), and it’s after midnight, so I’m going to sign off now.
Nice going chicken lady. You certainly inspired conversation! I hope you intended that, and that you recieve as much happiness and satisfaction from this action as you had hoped.
Oh, and I hope you don’t get sick and keep on doing lots of things that require you to be naked.
Totally agree with 45.
what’s the big deal with the dead chicken?
its been probably bought at the supermarket, so it was:
1. already dead
2. would have been eaten by the next person in line
Hah yeah, the chicken is clearly having a marvelous time. I know even if I was dead I’d enjoy being close to (what appears to be) a pretty hot girl. Fo’sho.
LAWL
this thread is educational..
i learnt alot about meat germs.
i dont see any issue why people would wanna argue about her using a dead chicken, unless u are a vegan of course..
it is unhygienic but its her choice and this is probably some sort of performing art.
“May contain traces of bone. Cannot be autoclaved”
I have seen some fucked up things on here, at this point I must add each to their own.
But to pierce the skin with a needle and saw raw chicken to herself, now thats totally fucked up.
Im sure salmonella would not be the only problem she would have, the dead chicken would carry all kinds of bacteria, which isnt killed until thoroughly cooked !
My advice would be, put one of those nice white coats on her which ties at the back. And get her to see a shrink pretty damm quick before she dies of some nasty disease. I suspect some of the dumb shit she may already have done has resulted in her catching some kinda disease thats eating at her brain causing the strange outbreaks in her behaviour.
I’m not going to even go off on one about the chicken, because im sure the next one in the supermarket would have bought it for dinner. However what type of heartless bastard abuses an animal in public for their own personal gratification.
good point 35…
You can get an infection from handling raw meat. I had a deep cut on the side of my nail from a hangnail that ripped out and I prepared a chicken dish and even after washing my hands, it managed to develop into a paronychia. Of course, that is assuming it didn’t come from somewhere else but it was close correlation.
That said, she could very well have irradiated the meat, which when used at high enough levels, can clinically sterilize things.
And yeah, I’d have to say she’s doing a whole piece on the idea of women being “a piece of meat.” aka objectified. Which is pretty fucking funny considering how many people said who cares what she’s sowing, she’s hot! So I guess in the end she may have proved her point but defeated the purpose.
And Empress and anyone else that calls her crazy, body art often involves crazy and radical acts but that doesn’t mean those people should be locked up. This was clearly a rational and intentional choice and I’m pretty sure she didn’t just sow raw chicken into her skin without treating it first somehow and even if she did, maybe that in itself is part of the art, the idea that treating women like pieces of meat is a societal infection. I’m sick and tired of people being called crazy for what they choose to do with their bodies. Do we lock up people that eat raw meat, which can be a delicacy and also potentially infectious? Do we lock up people that have DIY piercings and tattooes because they’re risking infection? Was Chris Burden put away because he had himself shot for art? Just because we don’t understand things doesn’t mean they’re insane. Sometimes it seems like the members of the modified community are driving on the interstate: anyone going slower drives like Grandma, anyone going faster is a crazy bastard but we are going exactly the right speed and everyone should drive just like us.
To PotownAl:
Humans can decide if they want to shove needles/ink into their bodies. Animals don’t say, “Put me in a factory farm for my whole life in horrendous conditions while you force feed me and finally slaughter me!”
Empress (62)– There are all kinds of heartless bastards in the world, but I rather think using an already dead animal in a performance doesn’t qualify. Especially since there’s every chance, as pointed out by Jeanne in comment 32 that part of the statement she’s making involves animal’s worth.
If you want to take issue with the whole poultry and beef industry (as Brian/64) seems to, well, good on ya. But there is no logical way to consider what this woman is doing as cruelty.
the funny part is that everyone is like “LOL THE CHICKEN IS DEAD SO WHY IS IT WRONG?” maybe you didn’t get the memo, but generally, dead things were ALIVE at some point. that is the problem. i don’t care either way, i just thought i would illustrate a simple point that seems to have been missed…
We all realize the chicken is dead. Whether killing chickens in general is wrong was not the question being addressed. Using an already dead chicken as part of a performance was.
Comment 65 for J…
I already stated if she had not bought the chicken to use in this spectacle someone else would have for dinner.
Simple question for you..Supposing your mother or father had died would you be happy for this woman to carve flesh off them and sewn onto herself for entertainment??
We all know chickens are in the food chain, I eat them myself, but would never dream of doing this to one in the name of entertainment!
At 68:
You cannot assume that this is for entertainment, Empress. It might be – however, it might well be a political or an artistic statement. In the latter case, I think what she is doing is far more defensible than simply eating a chicken, because either the art community or the political debate will be stimulated as a result of it. Again, we don’t know why she does this, but it is a bit premature to assume that it is simply for entertainment value.
who gives a fuck if the chicken was ever alive. its whole purpose from birth was to be food. if not like the girl was sewin a live chicken on her. christ you crybaby vegan/ animal rights people really gotta know when to stop whining. any more from you and ill go slaughter a goat on stage for my next show
oh yeah…btw did anyone notice that shannon posted a picture of a skinny dead chicken to the girl. how come the dead chicken wasnt “curvy” hmmmmm shame on you
It is funny how many people are freaking out about the idea of infection when other posts such as the guy with the “glasses pouch” don’t get the same reaction. I’m sure this woman understands the risk and as such I don’t think it is anyone’s position to judge her. If she gets sick, it is not your problem, it’s hers, so live and let live.
As for the chicken thing. So its ok to eat a dead animal but not to use one in a piece of art? I’m pretty sure that the chicken isn’t too worried about its dignity (what with it being dead and all.) Empress, I think your last comment smacks of hypocrisy.
And I would love to hear from the woman in question about the meaning behind this – but until then I am just going to assume it is a statement about the “pornography of meat”
Empress–supposing my mother or father had died, I honestly don’t think I’d be all that attached to the body. My parents and I have already had several discussions about what to do with our bodies after we die, and come to the conclusion that none of us really care what happens to our shell. If there’s some useful thing to do with it, then so much the better.
But I will grant you that my emotional stance may be different than most people’s.
I will also suppose that most people don’t regard chickens on the same level they regard their parents. I furthermore think that the chicken doesn’t care, and neither do the rest of the chickens out there. Anthropomorphising serves no helpful purpose here; it certainly doesn’t help other people understand chickens better. And as several people have pointed out, this is rather more likely to be a statement about pornography, women’s worth, and animals’ worth than it is “in the name of entertainment”.
I surround myself day in and day out with broken animals–my life is all about improving their lives. And I’m not saying that lightly. My job is to patch up the broken ones and keep the healthy ones healthy. I rescue unwanted animals on a regular basis.
And I repeat myself–how is this possibly cruel to the chicken? Nobody has answered that yet.
hey if i was there that day i would cook the chicken up and still eat it. who knows maybe someone else did for all we know the chicken might have been used to its FULL potential.
and if anything she was saving a person’s life by just using the skin of the chicken and leaving the rest of the chicken to be eaten. sounds good to me.
and if anything she was doing a good thing by just taking the skin of the chicken and leaving the rest of the chicken to be eaten. sounds good to me.
@ 69
It may well be political or artistic, but judging by the mircophone and stage lighting, she certainly didnt do this at home, so it was for some kind of entertainment whatever label it was branded under.
@ 70 Stiggie
Now it was only within the last couple of days you were telling us what a nice guy you really are, and you expect us to believe you, now your off slaughtering goats just for a stage act. Or you playing professional agitator again shame on you lol 🙂
@ 71 Stiggie yet again 🙂
For gods sake man *tongue in cheek* please dont beat shannon up over not posting curvy chickens, you little devils advocate you 😉
@ 72 Amanda
How am I a hypocrite, I openly admitted to eating chicken?
@ 73
My compliments to you for providing care for sick animals its a very worth while occupation.
When I made the comment about you parents it was totally off the wall, said to cause a reaction. I agree we all view things differently.
Now you friggin lot I know my nick sticks out an all, go read all the other comments above and give them all some grief 🙂
Empress–
I know you were trying to get a reaction with the parents question. But attempting to back up a point with shock tactics is much more likely to make me disregard your entire argument than it is to make me think about what you’re saying. Which, I trust, is not the reaction you were trying to get from me.
And still, you haven’t answered my question. It’s an honest one, not a sarcastic or rhetorical one: What, truely, is the basis for your objection to using the dead chicken? I don’t get it.
no i was bein serious…i love plump beefy chickens. they taste better. i just dont like my women that way. ÈMþRꧧ you need tio send me your addy and ill be sure to get you an autogrpahed head shot of me to hang up when i am not on modblog bein silly. ill even sign it hugs and kisses xoxo
Samonella Time!! I’m too “chicken of illnesses and bacteria to enjoy this un’!
Empress
I don’t think my point came across.
Art or politics goed beyond entertainment: it provokes, it incites, it gives us something to reflect on. We don’t know for sure, but IF she is making an artistic or political point here, I would say that is a whole lot better than simply having consumed the chicken.
You are outraged over the use of the chicken here – yet you would have gladly eaten it? I would think that eating meat is closer to just ‘entertainment’ than an artistic or political statement would! You could easily get your nutrients from vegetables, seeds etc. I am not judging your decision to eat meat – but you’re in no position to judge the performer here.
@ 78
Well J, It seems we to have different opinions on treatment of a being, you said once we are gone its just a body what does it matter. To me when a creature has lived just because its dead I would not treat it any differently for art. Any dead birds I find in my garden gets buried I would not throw them in the trash can. Yeah yeah I know im a weirdo 🙂
@ 79 Stiggie
Im sure by now you know im just teasing you, and I know you are just being silly here.
Hugz x
ps about that head shot I could do with that to pin on my dart board, may make me into a crack shot with my arrows 🙂
@81
Casper, shall I simply shoot myself with that make you happy lol
hugz x
*sigh* I’m not trying to call you weird or insult you, Empress.
I’m honestly trying to understand why you (and other people) object to using animals, especially dead ones, in the making of political or artistic statements. I was hoping you could explain it. The difference, I guess, is that I don’t see it as shockingly disrespectful, and you apparently do. But I still don’t understand _why_ you find it so disrespectful.
J,
You didnt call me weird, I called myself weird:)
To be honest I just love animals. I consider myself a hypocrite consuming meat, I could no more kill an animal myself than fly in the air. I have tried on numerous occasional to become vegetarian.
Im struggling to find the right words to make you understand my feelings on how this person is using a chicken. I guess its the same as animals being used for clothing (leather shoes & handbags) yet I get so angry when I see fur coats.
To me the chicken died to become food, but got used in an alternative manner. It just seems so senseless to me using a chicken like this. I know someone said above ‘who said it didnt get cooked afterwards’, but I seriously doubt that happened, im sure it ended up in the trash can, hence to me a worthless act.
thats fowl..
What I don’t understand is what makes you people think that she is puncturing herself to get salmonella anyways? Maybe she is simply hanging chicken skin on herself to make some sort of a statement.
I can understand the waste of food point.
So I suppose then that it comes down the the statement she was trying to make…which we probably won’t know for sure, unless she shows up here to tell us. If the worth and effect of the statement outweighs the use of a single chicken as food, is the performance worthy? Certainly caused a lot more discussion and thought here than seeing a fried chicken.
So does fur really upset you more than leather? how odd. that’s probably not a conversation for here, though. If you want to continue it elsewhere, let me know; I use most of the major instant messengers, or I can give you my email address.
XinX–the caption with the pictures, in which we’re told “she’s sewing chicken skin to her breasts”. Sewing generally involving puncturing, thus the risk of infection.
J,
Without me going over to top and boring people senseless, so I apologise upfront 🙂
When leather is used its normally a secondary product for which the animal is killed for (steak etc).
But with fur, some of the animals are farmed in not very nice conditions, usually kept in small cages.
Thank you. You’re the first person I’ve asked that question of who’s come back with a reasonable answer 🙂
check out those heels, ow ow!
Empress – you asked me why I called you a hypocrite and then went on to call yourself one! 😉
The reason I said it is because the animal still had the same quality of life, was still killed, still went on to be put in packaging (or on a butchers shelf or whatever) so it doesn’t seem to matter what the end result was. And yet you think eating the chicken is valid yet art/ a political statement isn’t. Maybe hypocrisy wasn’t the correct word.
As no.83 said, surely eating it is more of a form of entertainment than this.
And while I agree about fur, often animal which are going to be eaten are kept in just as bad conditions!
But I bury birds in my garden too.
I am not a nugget.
I am a BRA.
Amanda,
I’m fully aware of how other animals are kept, I use to work on a poultry farm. It certainly wasnt pleasant looking at the chickens where they had pecked lumps of each other to simply get space in the over crowded cages. This incidently was in Australia, and these open wounds soon became maggot infested. Not to mention their feet cut to ribbons having to contiunally stand in wire cages, so the excrement could fall through.
I’m not going to open a whole debate on animal welfare.
And yes im a hypocrite, I only lasted a couple of days in that job, and still I eat chicken. The only excuse I have is that I only eat free range and hope its at least had some sort of a decent life.
Oh hell god knows what that will have opened up now!!
Well.
I don’t have a problem with most of the stuff on here.
But being vegan and a member of PETA this just doesn’t seem right.
I am totally for people messing with their own bodies.
But when you bring animals into it I just don’t think that it’s right.
But that’s just my oppinion.
i love that everyone is getting defensive over the chicken being used in a way it can’t protest against. i’m sure it simply loves being eaten. peta/vegan types have a slightly better argument.
and if i would her, i’d do it just to freak people out. and make them ruminate over how women are meat and being used by mass media as animals. when really? i just did it to weird you out.
“yes, there are people that handle chicken, but they wash there hands right after”
HAHAHAHAHAH
anyone ever work in a kitchen? give me a break!
and IMHO – this is pretty unethical – but not as unethical/contradictory as all the meateaters that think it’s aweful, or all the people that are wearing leather shoes thinking it’s aweful (tho i side with the health stance, raw meat is dangerous)
saying that
if i was dead, i would fully rather be all over that hot chicks naked sweaty body than covering any of your smelly ass feet with my hide.