DOG CARPETS, 100 chiens par semaine pour finir en tapis, au nom de l'Art qui .. "dénonce"

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vous êtes des malades !! ce n'est pas de l'art c'est de l'horreur !! HONTE A VOUS !! pauvres chiens, pauvre monde pourri dont vous faites partie !! LAMENTABLE !!!


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What is this project about?

Ondrej:
The dog carpets are essentially about society’s hypocrisy. It questions the
special status that dogs and cats have in our, western society. Although we can
see that in China, despite the local culture and cuisine, the pet culture is on
its rise as well. The Bolivian experience was about hypocrisy as well, but it
involved on a larger and direct scale mechanisms and structures within the
society.

Kristofer:
It’s about the tradition of producing carpets with wild animals as a hunting
fetish. But in this case we were using an inappropriate animal, a pet - and like
this we wanted to question the values behind this tradition. Ondrej was speaking
to me about this idea already before the Bolivia show, but when I got the
opportunity to participate in that show I thought it would be interesting to
realize the dog carpets there with Ondrej, mainly for three reasons: more
adventure, lower production costs and the problem of street dogs in South
America (in contrast to the beloved inhouse pet in North America and in most
European countries).


How
did you proceed to realize the work and how important was the local context for
realizing the work?

Ondrej:
The context is always important. In fact in comparison to most countries in
Europe, in Bolivia (La Paz) there is a great concentration of street dogs. We
were informed then, that there is a municipal company called Zoonosis which is
in charge of hunting street dogs and dealing with animals within the city of La
Paz. They catch about 100 dogs a week and execute them every friday noon. We
were supposed to prepare a project that would take place in a city Museum called
Museo Tambo Quirquincho. The communication with Zoonosis was relatively simple,
since both institutions were run by the city. We requested to obtain 10
sacrificed dogs for our “installation”. This seemed to be a perfect paradox. A
hunting carpet from a dog that is being hunted by the society.

Kristofer:
The local context was striking: when we went out in the center of the city at
night there were dogs all over the streets eating garbage. We discovered that
there is a whole municipal organisation dealing with the problem of street dogs
in La Paz. The municipal service Zoonosis is hunting for street dogs during
night time and collecting the dogs in a kind of dog prison and then killing
them, about 100 dogs every week. We went to visit Zoonosis and talked to them
about our project and we also explained our project to the director of the Museo
Tambo Quirquincho. She wrote a recommendation letter for us and with this letter
we went to Zoonosis again and met with the director. He signed and gave us a
small post-it to authorise us to get 10 killed dogs the following week…



Tell
us about the killing. Did you assist to it and if yes, how did you feel and what
did you think about at that moment?

Ondrej:
The killing was a terrible experience. We arrived to Zoonosis maybe one hour
before they began with the execution. About half an hour before they started
with the execution, the dogs were quite restless, nervous, barking a lot as if
this was their last chance to show that they’re alive. When they started killing
them the whole cage was in complete silence. I’m sure that the dogs were
completely aware what was going on…

Kristofer:
Yes we assisted to the killing, which took place around one o’clock in the
afternoon. The gates were closed so nobody could see what happened from the
outside. The place became completely calm and the dogs stopped barking. I was
nervous. I had taken my digital camera because I wanted to record something of
this moment - which was of course forbidden - and at the same time it was
absolutely not the moment to make photographs… So I nervously pushed the button
a couple of times without really looking. Hiding away with the camera from the 5
or 6 guys running around making injections to the dogs with big plastic bottles
filled with poison. All dogs pissed and shitted after they got the injection.
They died in about 30 seconds and were left there lying in their own excrements.
I felt miserable.



What
happened after the killing?

Ondrej:
After the execution Zoonosis offered us a transport of the cadavers to the
taxidermist….or sort of taxidermist…we did some research before (there is no
training or career of taxidermy in La Paz) and seemingly the only person who
could help us to realize the taxidermy was working in the Museum of Natural
history… as a guard. He was also responsible for most taxidermy work within the
Museum. The quality of the exhibits were quite terrible but we didn’t have any
other choice.

Kristofer: We
were asked to chose “our” 10 dogs which were put aside for us and put into
plastic bags. The act of picking 10 freshly killed dogs out of maybe 80 killed
that day was also like straight out of a nightmare, but I was surprised and
terrified to see how easily I started looking at the dead bodies just as
aesthetic objects, trying to make the best choice. Zoonosis then gave us a ride
with the dead dogs to the Museum of Natural History, where we had found the only
taxidermists of La Paz: the janitor of the museum and his friend the night-guard
who practice taxidermy as a self-taught hobby (doing the taxidermy for the
collections of the Museum of Natural History of La Paz as well). The taxidermy
that those two fellows did was horrible. You could still feel and see the meat
and the bones in the legs and the dogs were stinking like hell…



How
did you display the work in the Museo Tambo Quirquincho?

Ondrej:
The carpets were not ready for the opening. They were still wet and extremely
stinking. We decided to hang the dog carpets in the patio of the museum in a way
like you hang clothes to dry. The idea was that the dogs would be drying during
the time of the show. Visually it was certainly a freak show.

Kristofer:
We could not show the work as planned since the dogs were not dry yet. So we
wanted to just put them up to dry outside, in the courtyard of the museum. This
was a terrible “installation”. But since the whole show was all about “the
process”, we and the curators accepted this display. The museum director didn’t
like it though, so the next day we had to put them into a smaller courtyard
where the public could not see them. But since the show was about the process,
the museum was open for visitors before the opening as well and the display of
the hanging dogs was seen by a couple of persons on that one day when we first
hang them up to dry in the courtyard of the museum…


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c'est clair ,quelle honte
tu parle de l'art!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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vraiment la sa resemble a rien et encor pire se sont des chien et il s'apel sa de l'art mais ou va ton franchement

Au nom de l'art, en ce moment, c'est la cata que qu'on voit :-(

je n'ai pas regardé les photo de peur de passer encore une mauvaise apres midi et de pleurer encore mais par contre j'ai lu le texte de ondrej et kristofer c'est vraiment n'importe quoi alors pourquoi on ne les prend pas tout les deux ainsi que tout ceux qui font ca et moi je veux bien un tapis avec leur peaux afin que je puisse fire dormir mes chiens dedans je pense que si l'on faisait ca a l'homme et bien ca serai un scandale pourtant ce sont bien tout comme nos animaux des etres vivants et qui peuvent aussi servir de tapis non????????

je serais également pour infliger les mêmes peines pour l'homme que pour l'animal car nous sommes des animaux donc il ne doit pas y avoir de différence.