Word: tahoe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish that the students could then go on to convert the negative aspect of this experience into a positive and productive understanding of the whole. They would then be able to reinforce this positive understanding with a sense of wonder and imagination when creating a statement in sculpture. Ritsuko Taho Visual and Environmental Studies Department
...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...
...Monday, immediately after picking up one ofthe live chickens Taho ordered, the studentseither took their chickens home for a day whileothers brought them immediately to the MayflowerPoultry Company in East Cambridge forslaughtering...