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Kofi Gets His Due
Artist Mike Bouchet's odorific "Celebrity Hot Tub for Kofi Annan" sculpture — which features a rotting sausage stewing in a tub of noxious water — produces an overwhelming stench that is sickening visitors to the MoMA-affiliated museum. No warnings are posted at "Greater New York 2005," the current show of emerging New York artists, and museum staffers nod wearily at visitors' complaints. "The second floor? Sure,it's terrible, everyone complains, someone vomited," said a staffer. "It got real bad, we didn't know you had to clean it out. The guards are really mad about this."[...] The sculpture is a full-sized Jacuzzi fashioned from cardboard, loaded with capocollo, and left to ferment. Smoked pork shoulder butt rotting slowly in standing water. Yep, that about sums up Kofi's accomplishments as UN head. After installing the work, Bouchet took off for Germany, where he recently moved, without leaving instructions for maintaining the work. Ooops! Finally, after six weeks, Bouchet's assistant replaced the water and sausage, and the odor went away — but only briefly. Posted by: Grusing Angoting1416 2005-06-03 |
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