"Artist" eats dead baby. No, really.

[beagledave]

Great googly moogly.

I can’t think of anything else to do add to this…

[ivylass]

No he didn’t.

Snopes is your friend.

[Revtim]

Recently discussed here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=153448

[beagledave]

Umm, no. Did you actually read the entire article? This is not the same thing. The snopes bit is about a 2001 email with a phonied up jpeg.

Britain’s Channel 4 is getting in to hot water (again, apprently) for showing a documentary about this artist.

23:05 Beijing Swings - an investigation into why China is currently producing the most outrageous and explicit modern art in the world. (Repeated 6/2/03 at 3.40am).

Also see here

Beijing Swings features stills of artist Zhu Yu, biting into the body of a stillborn infant.

Yu, who is a Christian, says religion has had a major impact on his work and he defended the act, arguing that he is entitled to eat the baby’s flesh.

“No religion forbids cannibalism,” he said. “Nor can I find any law which prevents us from eating people. I took advantage of the space between morality and the law and based my work on it.”

The documentary will also show a man drinking wine which has had an amputated penis marinaded in it. The show is to be broadcast just over a month after Channel 4 came under fire for showing a live autopsy. However, the station has strongly defended the shocking work.

[beagledave]

Thanks for the other thread Revtim.

I’m also rethinking the “hoax” nature of this…mainly because the same “artist” is mentioned in Snopes as in the other stories…even if there seems to be a weird gap of time from the original internet version of this story, and the current Channel 4 version.

Since this was discussed in another thread, if a mod wants to close this one up…that would be fine with me.