I’m Alive

Disclaimer: This project was created as part of a university research assignment and is intended for educational purposes only. It is not a real-world or commercial piece and was not developed for sale or public use.

Final Major Project

For the last project of my bachelors I are tasked with my FMP, mine was called I’m Alive, a editorial around the ethics of the use of living things in art exhibitions.

“What art does is to coax us away from mechanical and toward the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to its transforming power. Art is not part of the mechine. Art asks us to think differently, see differently, hear differently, and ultimately to act differntly, which is why art had moral force.”

Background

Throughout all my research on different artists who used living things in their art, every single one was either fined, sued, or reported to animal rights charities for their abuse of animals. The artists who used themselves most have said that they had to go to therapy and, even though they felt they had done something really powerful and different, they would never do it again. I felt this highlighted the fact that there is a lot of trauma associated with these types of exhibition styles. I don’t want to tell people whether they should or shouldn’t do it, or whether they should or shouldn’t support and attend such exhibitions, but rather make them question the ethics of it.