Soapbox Time

One of my Flickr friends let me know about this, so I thought I'd mention it. She re-posted in in her photostream, copied from one of her friends. She mentions another contact as her source, but I didn't see a third posting of it on Flickr - maybe that was via email. I've trimmed a little, but here it is:

"Guillermo Vargas Habacuc is a Costa Rican who claims to be artist. The past month of August he made a exhibition in a gallery of Managua (Nicaragua), hunted a street dog, tied it with one short cord to one of the walls of the gallery and let it die of hunger and thirst. According to him, that act of cowardly sadism is art. Now this torturador has been invited to participate in 2008 in the prestigious Central American Biennial of Honduras. There is an international campaign to collect signatures to request that this invitation is retired."

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If you're interested, you can sign the petition here (I did). There's also another posting that seems to say that the The Museum of Art and Contemporary Design (MADC) of Costa Rica is aware of the petition and has rejected it. I haven't found anything that would indicate that this story isn't true, but it's unclear when the Biennial would take place (took place?), so it's possible that this all may be a moot point.

Please feel free to post additional information that you find in the comments section.