Lice Art

April 28, 2008 - 4:46 PM by Stephanie

Okay let’s just preface this next one with a rip roaring….

EWWWW!!!! GEEEEYAAADDD!!!

Seven young artists from Berlin are trying to stretch the boundaries of art by living in an Israeli museum for three weeks with lice in their hair.

“Art is no longer just a painting on the wall,” Milana Gitzin-Adiram, chief curator of the Museum of Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, said. “Art is life, life is art.”

The exhibition has caused controversy – unintended, the artists say – in a country where the mention of lice may revive memories of Nazi propaganda that described Jews as “parasites”.

The artists, who sleep, eat and bathe in the gallery, said the exhibition toyed with ideas about hosts and guests in line with a theme set by the museum and aimed to blur the boundaries between art and reality.

I’m at a loss for words…Total loss.

Tags: • Category: Art, History and Culture, Israeliness 

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One Comment on Lice Art

  1. David-Joe on Tue, Apr 29th 2008 1:22 AM

    2. It has nothing to do with art. It IS unhygenic people seeking publicity for some stupid reason and they ought to be thrown out.

    They seek to blur the line between art and reality? That alone indicates how convoluted and irrational they are.

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