Word: excrementalism
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...with eating an estimated 17 tons of insects each night, helping reduce mosquito-borne malaria. So the government scrapped its plan to eradicate the bats. (Another factor was that the museum makes $250 a month selling bat guano.) A second, wooden ceiling, installed in 1995, failed to keep the excrement out of the gallery, so the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society is trying to raise $1 million to replace it with a concrete...
Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...
...chocolate smeared woman” after rubbing chocolate all over her body in “We Keep Our Victims Ready.” Finley intends this act to be a symbolic gesture of solidarity towards a young black woman whose dead body was found covered in excrement. “I wanted to give her a voice,” she says. “All of us have that moment where putting shit on us is a better choice.” After covering herself in chocolate, Finley wrapped herself in tinsel, mimicking a mistreated woman dressing...
...Although these best friends soon have to tote hods of excrement up and down twisting Phoenix Mountain trails and mine coal from primitive pits, theirs is not just another grim and baleful tale of forced labor. For these pals are merry pranksters at heart whose spirits never falter. At their first meeting with the village headman, an ex-opium farmer turned communist cadre, the narrator's violin is adjudged a stupid and bourgeois city toy. To prove differently he plays a Mozart sonata. "What's it called?" challenges the headman. Mozart Is Thinking of Chairman Mao is Luo's politically...
...Roth is the most ironic and perhaps the most macabre. Bertolt Brecht’s idea that we only eat in order to excrete is applicable to his work. The juxtaposition of a lion made out of chocolate (which he calls a self portrait) and bunny made out of excrement reveals that eating is just part of the digestive process. Ironically, after 30 years of decomposition, the chocolate lion is more revolting than the bunny. Roth is poking fun at the heroism and self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does not aim at permanence with his sculptures...