So brave.
Sebastian Errazuriz has used art to take on an array of issues: New York’s death rate, the Occupy movement, military suicide, children with disabilities, the brutal reign of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Now, the Brooklyn-based artist is taking aim at what he sees as religious extremism.
At a party this weekend celebrating New York Design Week, which begins today, the Chilean-born artist plans to hand out 100 “Christian Popsicles” made of “frozen holy wine transformed into the blood of Christ” and featuring a crucifix instead the tongue depressor that typically hosts the frozen treats, he said.
An image of Jesus Christ positioned traditionally on the cross is visible once the ice pop is consumed. As for the frozen wine, Errazuriz said, he concealed it in a cooler and took it into a church, where it was “inadvertently blessed by the priest while turning wine into the blood of Christ during the Eucharist.”
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While many of the pieces are provocative, none is quite so controversial as Jesus on a Popsicle stick. No stranger to controversy, Errazuriz said his intention isn’t to upset people.
“It’s not that I purposely want to get in trouble. I just believe if you are not doing work that can make people stop, think and discuss, then it’s better not to make any work at all,” he said.
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Raised in a Catholic household, Errazuriz is now a “practicing atheist,” but he has many friends and family members who are religious, and he respects their beliefs. He has always been vexed by religion, however, particularly the practitioners who wish to force their beliefs on others.
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Today, he feels that America is growing more extreme in its dogma, which is “holding a growing influence over American politics.” He is especially unnerved by demands that U.S. leaders “publicly profess their faith in their god and enforce laws that defend the ideology of the Bible over individual liberties,” he said.
His frozen cocktails stand as a symbol, he said, an invitation to “drink the Kool-Aid” that he feels so many religious zealots are stirring up.
Stick Mohammed on them and I’ll be impressed with his brave, courageous stand against “all religions.” As this stands, it’s just a run of the mill attack on a faith that doesn’t issue fatwas.
Art is Dead, killed by the useful idiot artist.
Christians are prosecuted every day, worldwide. These stalinist apparatchiks do their part in here.
That’s all.
They are not (only) coward, they are part of the beast.
May the Light of God Who Is Infinite Love find a way to their hearts.
PS
Test: stalinist, christian .
The spell checker tells me to capitalize stalinist. It does not tell me to capitalize christian.
And yesterday PJM published the link to :
http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012
at the bottom of the monthly report you will find the links to the previous months reports.
Yawn.
Look, I am a terrible photographer. All I know to do is to point-and-click. But if I want some recognition as a photographer, no problem! All I need to do is arrange, say, a nude Black woman holding one sign saying “I am Jesus” and another saying “I am a lesbian”, surrounded by 12 disciples in — say — alternating SS and concentration camp inmates’ uniform.
Then I point-and-click and — voila! — a “controvertial and corageous photograph” about the “denied” link of Christianity to “opression of Jews and sexual minorities of color”, blah blah blah.
P.S.
If any struggling artist is having a problem finding out what “shocking and controvertial transgressive” subjects will get them fame and fortune, please contact me. I can think of such “corageous” stuff daily while I shave.
Wow. I’ve written 5,000 word essays that don’t sum up the dismantling of fine art photography in the last half century as well as you just did.
It goes the other way, too, you know — as “The Onion” said it: “Director shocks audience by setting Shakespeare’s play in time, place, Shakespeare actually intended”.
That artist is so pathetic – he wants to rebel against one of the easiest targets to rebel against. Like Mr. Preston said, if he truly wanted to show his daring and bravery, he should have made art connected to Islam. Also, as a Christian, I don’t really find his popsicle offensive because I don’t think God would find it offensive – I think God would probably feel sorry for a guy this pathetic. And if he has Twitter, he needs to be made aware of this PJMedia post.
This is what I hear when I listen to these almost complete morons:
“You who make potato salad using kitty cats as an ingredient are wrong-headed and bad. I challenge those who smuggle child slaves across borders to a chess match – best 2 out of 3. This will teach you a lesson. Come out, show yourselves, those who eat dogs. I will never vote for you. You will become dismayed and lose the will to live. I have spoken.”
You must be a Protestant, then. Having taken the time to read the description, it seems the wine was not really consecrated, but the atheist thought it was and wants everyone else to think it was, which means he intended to commit sacrilege and induce others to participate in sacrilege, and he failed due to misunderstanding what it would take to accomplish this task. To give an analogy to another sin, it would be like someone attempting to commit murder by poisoning the intended victim’s food not realizing that the poison would be denatured by stomach acid and therefore could never kill someone by being eaten. He fully intended to desecrate the Body and Blood of Christ and would have if he had known how to get his hands on the Precious Blood.
“particularly the practitioners who wish to force their beliefs on others”
this is the disconnect i am unable to comprehend about lefties:
while there is still an individual choice regarding which religion to practice there is no choice when it comes to government force
and didnt most masters of ‘art’ only become recognized/appreciated after they were dead?
this errazuriz is nothing but a shill for the religion of leftism
Too bad he didn’t have the good sense to emigrate to Egypt, where he could express his concerns about social justice in a more conspicuous and literal display of his point, since the news of his suicidal act in Tahrir Square would no doubt entertain the news cycle for 5 min. or so.
Soooooo . . . he takes a bold, courageous stance against a faith that commands its followers to love those who persecute them. That doesn’t exactly reek of bravery, does it? That’s like making a hue and cry about my triumph over the mighty bull while I eat a hamburger.
If he respects others’ faith, why is he mocking transubstantiation?
He’s a jerk.
He’s also an ignorant jerk; even I (non-Catholic) know that merely having wine present at the mass does not lead to transubstantiation!
I’m a lot angrier about this than about that guy who stole and threatened to desecrate a Host on video. To that guy, my reaction was, “Go ahead, it’s your funeral,” because God will avenge Himself against those who sin against His Body and Blood, but this man does something worse- not content to commit sacrilege alone, he scandalizes others by encouraging them to join him in committing sacrilege. To all you non-Christians, do not consume the Blood of Christ, lest you bring calamity upon yourselves. Even Christians must not consume the Flesh and Blood of Christ without discerning the Same, and the consumption must be done reverently, not taking Him from someone who intends to desecrate the Most Holy Sacrament.
I dare this libtard”artist” to make a creamsicle koran.If the christian community had any cojones left, they’d occupy his house and gallery,defecate in it,destroy, his “art” and call the whole thing an eample of “reactive protest art”. Enough!
he’s a athiest now because it puts money in his pockets. wait till the come to Jesus moment hits him… and there aren’t ANY athiests in foxholes.. guaranteed..
There weren’t many athiests at test depth on a subameine, eiher,
Why doesn’t Errazuriz shimmy over to the Al-Farook Mosque on Atlantic Ave in Brooklyn and see if the art lovers down there might be interested in slurping down a couple of yummy Mohammad Jello shots.
Yawn. This shtick is getting old. I’ll know this idiot is cutting edge brave when he carves the image of Mohammed out of a block of Spam. I’m not holding my breath.
You know, considering this mainstream candy-making company has page after page of candy molds shaped like cross and crucifix, Host and chalice, dreidel and mogen David suckers, Bible and cross cake pans, and so on, it’s just possible too much could be made of this whole thing.
Big deal. So he insults Catholics during the last week of Easter. At least he had the courtesy to wait until after Lent. These guys are all the same, although going to the trouble to actually attend Mass was a nice touch.
Find me some cutting edge artsy guy who isn’t “agnostic” or “athiest”. Every university town has some of these losers hanging around, trying to seperate their “art” from the masses. Religion bashing is just a handy crutch for those with no talent.