Hey artist, try this little project in an other country. You better run little creative bunny. Like it though. Makes want to eat more carrots.
In “Bunny Project” I use the rabbit as symbol for subversive activities, activities outside the reach of the control system. The rabbit has an almost unmatched ability to reproduce and spread uncontrollably and given the right conditions it can be almost impossible to stop. At exhibitions in Galleri 54 and Röda Sten in Göteborg 2004, I used the rabbit analogy to once more return to the issues of uncontrolled distribution of copyrighted material, pirating and downloading. For the project I made an extensive research work where I examined the concept of the rabbit from several angles.
I studied the idea of the rabbit in an historical context as well as the symbolic use of rabbits in myth, art history and popular culture. I used some fragments of this material to put together a text, which came to be used in several exhibitions. The text is not scientific even though parts of it are pure fact. Mixed with the factual parts are personal episodes from my life, which makes the end product into something else. During my research I found to my surprise that the northernmost natural population of European wild rabbit was not far from my home in Göteborg, I decided to try to track the rabbits down…
Source and more infos: Bunny Project
Countervail wrote,
Note to Random Good Stuff. For those of us that live in large cities, even when the “bomb” is made from carrots, not so funny. this kind of thing when done by one artist might be interesting but I don’t think it’s something you should be advocating others to do.
Link | July 17th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
RGS wrote,
Emmm, ok!
Link | July 17th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
Andrew wrote,
@Countervail
I almost expected some American to complain! You probably object to nudity on television as well. For all the things Europe and the US has in common *culturally* we are not the same!
As a Norwegian I think this Swedish artist is just amusing. No Swede would complain about this, that’s for sure. “Carrot bomb, how funny”, is all he would say before pondering the deeper meaning behind it.
Link | July 18th, 2009 at 5:01 am