http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/but-is-it-art/2007/01/13/1168105219066.html
Eeewww that is gross:
“Bon appetit” said Chilean artist Marco Evaristti as he presented his friends with his newest creation: meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction.
Ew.
I don’t get what he says about not being a cannibal if you eat art. I thought the definition of a cannibal was that you ate human flesh, regardless of the form it took.
I just hope he didn’t surprise his friends with the recipe…
Getting past the initial ‘ewww’ reaction… if this is cannibalism, so is biting your fingernails, or placenta stew. No-one was killed, and the operation was voluntary.
As far as I can tell, it is cannibalism. Do the laws against cannibalism simply say, “You shall not eat human flesh”, or do they say, “You shall not kill to eat human flesh, or take it without permission”?
I am not sure there are laws against cannibalism in that many places, just like usually there is no law against human taxidermy – it’s the murder part that gets ya. Or am I horribly wrong about this?
This is disturbing on so many levels. I don’t even think they could bring something like this on Fear Factor.
An “ewwww!” on it being human fat, and a “yuk!” as to it being a fatty meal in the first place.
I think he means that the cannibalism is secondary; an offshoot of the art. Sort of like “if it’s once removed, it doesn’t count.” I’m so not going there. Eeeew.
The article doesn’t say if his friends actually took a bite.
This may be my new diet plan. Whenever I feel hungry, I’ll just think of a creepy little man molding meatballs out of his own disgusting chunks of slimy yellow gut fat. I may never eat again.
I’m not entirely certain, but I think it was less that the meatballs were formed from his fat, more that they were cooked in it. Fried, I guess.
Either way, I have no problems with this. A polite boo to the yuk-ers.
Threads like this are the reason I recommend that no one read the dope with a queasy stomach.
No, it isn’t art. And yes, it is disgusting.
My personal disgust is not with the “art,” but with the prices people were willing to pay for it.
I don’t know about the cannibalism, but I suspect that in the US that liposuctioned fat would be treated as biohazardous waste and wouldn’t be something you could take home with you. (Anyone know for sure?)