Word: chickening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, Lucy's day doesn't get any better. Having nibbled on a fatal Korean chicken dumpling, Lucy finds herself dying on an emergency ward table. After a year of experimenting with spells and incantations Zelda (Judith Ivey), her clairvoyant sister, somehow manages to resurrect her from the grave. Lucy returns only to find Jason aloft in a slick Manhattan high rise in bed with his new wife. And with that cold realization. Lucy puts Jason behind her and embarks on a new life...
...attempt to bring art to life for her students, Ritsuko Taho, who teaches VES 30, "Fundamentals of Sculpture", gave each of her students a live chicken and instructed them to keep it for a day, take it to a slaughterhouse, and watch it be killed...
Taho said she also asked her students to cook and eat the chicken and use the bones in an original sculpture...
...There is a distance between the artist and the object. I wanted [the students] to break down the barrier between the artist and object," the VES lecturer said. Taho added, "Because they will have eaten it, the chicken will be a part of [the students'] bodies. This experience will expand their imagination and understanding...
Three students refused to be involved in the slaughter, said Hannah Gittleman '88. Gittleman said she could not do the project because she thought she would develop a relationship with the chicken...