I don’t think it’s fair to show the whole installation, but sell it bird by individual bird. Any punch it has as art is lost without the repetition. It goes from (arguably) being a reference to bird flu and the public reaction, to looking like a weekend taxidermy project.
But then, who knows, maybe there are just so many people wanting a piece of this “art” that selling them individually was the only way to satisfy the fans
Wut. Why do art students write this sort of wharrgarbl to try and justify their work? I’d be more impressed if the description just said “Cluck cluck buh-gawk!”
Loving the View It in A Room. Reminds me of Paul & Storm’s “Nugget Man” (if you have never heard P&S, your life will be greatly enriched by them)–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Vbg8gXz94
I’ve read in Martha Stewart that if you don’t have a BBQ to roast a chicken the next best thing is a high-wattage bulb shoved in the bird. Cook until the juices run down the wire.
wtf, I just noticed there are eight birds in the original installation, but only five for sale. There haven’t been any etsy sales, so did three people actually buy from that installation when it was in the gallery? Fools and their money…
More likely, SoftDecor (what an ironic name for the maker of chicken lamps with attached feet) kept the other three as a remembrance.
Ok, I Googled-polysemantic and associative object-because I wanted to know what that is. My searches just turned up various links to this “art” work.
So Regretsians what is a polysemantic/associative object?
Helen, a high point in both headline and view, maybe an all-time high…
And these are perfect for pairing up with your bat night light. Or your Canada goose chandelier (to quote Tom Lehrer, “Don’t stand underneath when they fly by.”
Rowan, something polysemantic is something ambiguous, or having many meanings. An associative object is something to which we assign meaning, or ascribe meaning based on context. So, I’m guessing she’s trying to say that she chose the chicken because it has several meanings — as food, as lacking courage, as indicative of something “avian” (as in flu). Though, I would argue with her that pandemic diseases are hardly an “anomaly” in human history.
Thanks Veracity. I knew the definitions, but I didn’t know if polysemantic/associative objects were a particular style of sculpture like Minimalism. I agree pandemic diseases are not an anomaly in human history. (Actually I thought she was saying her work was an anomaly.)
Vile & Evil Debbie Downer
January 28, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I’m laughing like a lunatic over here. LOVE ME SOME GLOWY CHIKKINZ! God I wish I were rich; I’d buy all of them and decorate my house Southern-Fried style.
#17 I think the artist made the word up; it’s not in my dictionary at least (Meriam-webster).
Poly means many and semantics, plural noun (no such thing as an adjective semantic), are the study of how words and sentences are put together to form meaning. So is this artist using “polysemantic” to mean multilingual/multicultural?
Polysemous is the correct word for “multiple meanings.” Kinda redundant to describe any piece of art as polysemous, because it all…
” Mommy, please don’t turn on the nightlight tonight. It scares me.
Don’t be silly darling, it is just some fabric(according to Raz) made to look like a beheaded and dessicated chicken. There is nothing to be afraid of. Unless of course the person who thought this was a good idea turns up.”
Feel Free To Customise and Whimsiclise My Vagina
January 28, 2010 at 6:51 pm
The artist forgot the Golden Rule of being a Serious Installation Artist, which is:
Your art is too profound to sell to the common masses, as that would be “selling out”, and besides, you aren’t a true artist unless you are living on noddles and working in a call centre.
Ah yes, soft decor offers EXACTLY the kind of aesthetic I’m trying to channel in my apartment–a beheaded, plucked chicken stretched out in agony over a light shoved up its poophole. I wonder if I can get the companion praying chicken for half off? These would go great over my rotisserie oven in the kitchen.
Vile & Evil Debbie Downer
January 28, 2010 at 8:13 pm
My checkered past includes having worked in a bird taxidermy. When a live chicken is brought in (usually after winning a fair award) to be stuffed, the taxidermist kills it by… you guessed it. Sticking a bare wire up it’s hooha and pluggin’ her in. I am not making this up.
Raz, I’m mega impressed with your quick-fire- poncho-reflex and self-given-badge-o-honor.
As for the “art,” in question, I think it’d be better if it was a wall-mount fixture and not plug-in style. Seeing the cord is so not high design. Unless it’s just a bare bulb and a black cord, ’cause apparently that is….but yeah, next time, let’s get “No fuzz, plumage or exposed wiring.” And a jumbo size tub o’ hot sauce.
I know I should comment on the other more important things but the illumintaed chicken arms really made me realize that I do have some pretty serious chicken wings (skin) going on.
and I am totally curious , does the heat from the bulb heat the chicken up?
The seller has some kind of fixation with making objects into lamps- chickens, felt circles, boots. I don’t even want to think about what she does in private, if ya get my drift. nudge nudge. wink.
I’m right there with you, Dynomoose. But at least I have a tenuous excuse to like ‘em: my area of study tends to overlap strongly with public health.
Those’d be so awesome in a department’s meet’n'greet area. “Welcome to the University of X’s School of Public Health. Oh, the chickens? Failed test subjects.”
(There’s also probably a former Soviet union/radiation joke to be made, but it’s too late for my brain.)
Wow, that is a line of gibberish worthy of (I was going to mention a recent ex-governor, but I’ll keep it nonpartisan). Nothing like somebody trying to use words they only partly understand.
Is that a real chicken? When the bulb get hot, does it make your whole apartment smell like chicken? Chicken potpourri?
Alright, for a change I can’t find much to insult, and I’m going to be the one person who thinks her stuff is kinda brilliant – did anyone look at the rest of it? I love the felted wall in particular. You have to say all kinds of conceptual nonsense about installations, goes with the territory, and I don’t actually mind a whole wall of illuminated chicken carcasses, there’s a statement in there somewhere, but ONE by itself looks like a gag. I’d buy something from her if I could afford…
I don’t know about Modern World Society, but my diagnosis of the future world society is that the stupid and pretentious shall inherit the Earth unless something is done about this pandemic.
Where’s the “I will not pretend to wait for you to wake up again, the universal mind all times wake up all times” shirt guy? I wanna shove a light bulb up his ass along with this seller. Who wants to help me with the instaliation? I’ll make chicken.
If I was irresponsibly wealthy I would buy everything on regresty (including this, oh god, including this) and put it all in a room designed to freak people out
January 28, 2010 at 6:03 pm
w.t.f Nice to see ET is participating on Etsy.
January 28, 2010 at 6:04 pm
I want to be the first to comment, yet I find myself at a loss for words — polysemantic words that is.
January 28, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Because I always thought that chickens with lights up thier asses made a powerful social statement.
January 28, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I think in the last sentence they mixed up their letters. (it can happen) They meant to say “moronically relating to iron changes of the world”
January 28, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I don’t think it’s fair to show the whole installation, but sell it bird by individual bird. Any punch it has as art is lost without the repetition. It goes from (arguably) being a reference to bird flu and the public reaction, to looking like a weekend taxidermy project.
But then, who knows, maybe there are just so many people wanting a piece of this “art” that selling them individually was the only way to satisfy the fans
January 28, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Wut. Why do art students write this sort of wharrgarbl to try and justify their work? I’d be more impressed if the description just said “Cluck cluck buh-gawk!”
Loving the View It in A Room. Reminds me of Paul & Storm’s “Nugget Man” (if you have never heard P&S, your life will be greatly enriched by them)–http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Vbg8gXz94
January 28, 2010 at 6:07 pm
I like it!
January 28, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Chickens with lights shoved up their dead asses! Now I have heard everything.
January 28, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I’ll take five, plus 2 fries, an order of onion rings, & a cole slaw.
January 28, 2010 at 6:10 pm
I’ve read in Martha Stewart that if you don’t have a BBQ to roast a chicken the next best thing is a high-wattage bulb shoved in the bird. Cook until the juices run down the wire.
January 28, 2010 at 6:11 pm
wtf, I just noticed there are eight birds in the original installation, but only five for sale. There haven’t been any etsy sales, so did three people actually buy from that installation when it was in the gallery? Fools and their money…
More likely, SoftDecor (what an ironic name for the maker of chicken lamps with attached feet) kept the other three as a remembrance.
January 28, 2010 at 6:11 pm
Crap! I forgot to turn on the crockpot. It’s Chic-fil-A for dinner.
January 28, 2010 at 6:12 pm
I can see that my eldest daughter will never be a “successful artist”… she’s not psychotic enough.
January 28, 2010 at 6:12 pm
“Honey, its dark in here. Could you turn on the chicken for me?
January 28, 2010 at 6:12 pm
mmmm chicken skins.
January 28, 2010 at 6:13 pm
Too plain. I want peacocks. But since the feathers are gone (“no plumage”), he should use Christmas lights for the _je ne sais squawk_.
January 28, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Ok, I Googled-polysemantic and associative object-because I wanted to know what that is. My searches just turned up various links to this “art” work.
So Regretsians what is a polysemantic/associative object?
January 28, 2010 at 6:14 pm
That little chicken looks like he needs some pizazz…
January 28, 2010 at 6:16 pm
Correction, #5. It’s an “instaliation” not an installation.
January 28, 2010 at 6:16 pm
raz – I was SO hoping someone would PS a poncho on the poor clucker.
January 28, 2010 at 6:17 pm
OMG Razberries you are fast! that is brilliant!
January 28, 2010 at 6:18 pm
fyi, people-i don’t think these are real chickens…
“Materials- silicone, cotton”
hahaha, bootsychoo
January 28, 2010 at 6:18 pm
#18: PERFECT!!!
January 28, 2010 at 6:19 pm
thanks, clevercat- and btw i love the new avatar- but i still like the merkin gnome the best!
January 28, 2010 at 6:20 pm
Helen, a high point in both headline and view, maybe an all-time high…
And these are perfect for pairing up with your bat night light. Or your Canada goose chandelier (to quote Tom Lehrer, “Don’t stand underneath when they fly by.”
January 28, 2010 at 6:20 pm
This should have been tagged, “Not suitable for eating.” Damn.
January 28, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Rowan, something polysemantic is something ambiguous, or having many meanings. An associative object is something to which we assign meaning, or ascribe meaning based on context. So, I’m guessing she’s trying to say that she chose the chicken because it has several meanings — as food, as lacking courage, as indicative of something “avian” (as in flu). Though, I would argue with her that pandemic diseases are hardly an “anomaly” in human history.
January 28, 2010 at 6:22 pm
Raz
that’s almost cute!
January 28, 2010 at 6:24 pm
What’s an instaliation?
January 28, 2010 at 6:27 pm
#22 razberries : Not real chickens! Well, I’m not paying $350 for a fake chicken!
January 28, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Whoohoo “comment of the day” go Razzie
January 28, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Thanks Veracity. I knew the definitions, but I didn’t know if polysemantic/associative objects were a particular style of sculpture like Minimalism. I agree pandemic diseases are not an anomaly in human history. (Actually I thought she was saying her work was an anomaly.)
January 28, 2010 at 6:34 pm
The artistic beatification of the positivities of swine flu: http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/bacon-lamp.jpg
January 28, 2010 at 6:36 pm
My first response to this, as the practical person I am says “If I buy this,how the hell do I dust it?”.
January 28, 2010 at 6:37 pm
I hunted up an Indiana Jones font just for this
It was a toss up between “Temple of Chicken” and “Chicken of Doom”
January 28, 2010 at 6:37 pm
jesus holy mother of god, was this chicken electrocuted?
January 28, 2010 at 6:38 pm
yay! thanks HK! i am so bookmarking this page so i can come back to it for future smiles
and iscreamuscream, yours just made me giggle out loud at my desk
thanks, clevercat!
January 28, 2010 at 6:38 pm
oh i see, its some Hipster Installation Artist swallowing up more grant money….
ho hum
January 28, 2010 at 6:39 pm
#35 Eruanna : all Indy needs now is a baster and some bbq sauce! lol
January 28, 2010 at 6:40 pm
I’m laughing like a lunatic over here. LOVE ME SOME GLOWY CHIKKINZ! God I wish I were rich; I’d buy all of them and decorate my house Southern-Fried style.
January 28, 2010 at 6:41 pm
And this she says
“By choosing it I was trying think ironically relating to moral changes of the world.”
Does anyone actually know the definition of ironic? because both her and Alanis Morrissett don’t
January 28, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Raz,
Or that scene from Temple with the BBQ rack. Just give Mola Ram a BBQ apron and hat. I’ll pull some stills later.
January 28, 2010 at 6:45 pm
(gets nerd glasses out)
#17 I think the artist made the word up; it’s not in my dictionary at least (Meriam-webster).
Poly means many and semantics, plural noun (no such thing as an adjective semantic), are the study of how words and sentences are put together to form meaning. So is this artist using “polysemantic” to mean multilingual/multicultural?
Polysemous is the correct word for “multiple meanings.” Kinda redundant to describe any piece of art as polysemous, because it all…
January 28, 2010 at 6:46 pm
….Because it all is.
January 28, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Oh my cats would so have this sculpture.
January 28, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Damn, Raz, you must read be psychic! That pic is exactly what I had in my mind…eerie…
January 28, 2010 at 6:48 pm
#43 yeah its all semantics all right- because most Installation artists talk out their ass anyway- their chicken ass that is…
January 28, 2010 at 6:48 pm
oops. you must be psychic. duh
January 28, 2010 at 6:50 pm
eruanna bloody excellent.
” Mommy, please don’t turn on the nightlight tonight. It scares me.
Don’t be silly darling, it is just some fabric(according to Raz) made to look like a beheaded and dessicated chicken. There is nothing to be afraid of. Unless of course the person who thought this was a good idea turns up.”
January 28, 2010 at 6:51 pm
This is chicken shit.
January 28, 2010 at 6:51 pm
The artist forgot the Golden Rule of being a Serious Installation Artist, which is:
Your art is too profound to sell to the common masses, as that would be “selling out”, and besides, you aren’t a true artist unless you are living on noddles and working in a call centre.
lol
January 28, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Ah! Ghost-chickens come to haunt the KFC man!!! LMAO
January 28, 2010 at 6:52 pm
noodles lol
January 28, 2010 at 6:53 pm
LOL! Yep. Noodles and gov’ment cheese.
January 28, 2010 at 6:56 pm
Aww, it’s a fake felted chicken? Nevermind, I don’t want it then.
January 28, 2010 at 7:00 pm
The Slimfast “before” model, 100 lbs and a brazilian later.
January 28, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Sounds like the post office saying – “neither fuzz nor plumage” will stop the mail from being delivered.
January 28, 2010 at 7:10 pm
After reading the “Artist’s Statement,” this comes to mind:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK0ITXBWpHE
January 28, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Can someone please put a Northwestern cheerleader outfit on mine, please? I think the Wildcats have a game this weekend.
January 28, 2010 at 7:18 pm
I don’t even want to think what is going on inside this sellers head.
January 28, 2010 at 7:19 pm
LOL @ #60! So true!
January 28, 2010 at 7:20 pm
er, #58 even.
But high five to #60 too.
January 28, 2010 at 7:44 pm
I hate seeing a chicken not dressed.
January 28, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Ah yes, soft decor offers EXACTLY the kind of aesthetic I’m trying to channel in my apartment–a beheaded, plucked chicken stretched out in agony over a light shoved up its poophole. I wonder if I can get the companion praying chicken for half off? These would go great over my rotisserie oven in the kitchen.
January 28, 2010 at 7:52 pm
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39118332
$800 for a bunch of cotton squares? Uh, no thanks.
January 28, 2010 at 7:53 pm
My bad, cotton puffs.
January 28, 2010 at 8:13 pm
My checkered past includes having worked in a bird taxidermy. When a live chicken is brought in (usually after winning a fair award) to be stuffed, the taxidermist kills it by… you guessed it. Sticking a bare wire up it’s hooha and pluggin’ her in. I am not making this up.
January 28, 2010 at 8:18 pm
@blondeweezie–I think those tie-offs ruin that. And, $800 is a buttload of money for Vilnius, Lithuania.
In terms of upcycled materials, I like this one better (using old buttons)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23882161@N03/3867535755/in/set-72157604156297977/
January 28, 2010 at 8:49 pm
At the risk of incurring the wrath of the Thumbs Down brigade, this is the *first* time I’ve laughed out loud upon opening a “View It in a Room.”
Don’t get me wrong – the others have been funtastic. But this one……..holy shit. It makes me crave an extra drumstick and a PBR.
January 28, 2010 at 8:49 pm
*extra CRISPY drumstick and EIGHTEENTH PBR*
Jesus H.
January 28, 2010 at 8:56 pm
Okay, give me those thumbs down, I really like this.
January 28, 2010 at 9:20 pm
@#71, no, I do too.
January 28, 2010 at 9:30 pm
too many cups of coffee I guess!
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2722/4312551539_0d0e265765_o.jpg
January 28, 2010 at 9:38 pm
Raz, I’m mega impressed with your quick-fire- poncho-reflex and self-given-badge-o-honor.
As for the “art,” in question, I think it’d be better if it was a wall-mount fixture and not plug-in style. Seeing the cord is so not high design. Unless it’s just a bare bulb and a black cord, ’cause apparently that is….but yeah, next time, let’s get “No fuzz, plumage or exposed wiring.” And a jumbo size tub o’ hot sauce.
January 28, 2010 at 9:42 pm
first of all, what the FUCK is the seller going on about?
and second, what the…I can’t even articulate a snarky question about the goddamned chicken light thing.
January 28, 2010 at 9:46 pm
that bird has one funky ass lookin’ penis. Heh.
January 28, 2010 at 9:49 pm
Q:
why did the chicken cross the road?
A:
to get the fuck away from this seller.
January 28, 2010 at 9:53 pm
#73- that is fabulous! I’m pretty sure that was the seller was aiming for!
January 28, 2010 at 10:10 pm
I know I should comment on the other more important things but the illumintaed chicken arms really made me realize that I do have some pretty serious chicken wings (skin) going on.
and I am totally curious , does the heat from the bulb heat the chicken up?
January 28, 2010 at 10:18 pm
@#73 ISUS: You beat me to it, and your version is much better than mine! Hilarious!
January 28, 2010 at 10:25 pm
The seller has some kind of fixation with making objects into lamps- chickens, felt circles, boots. I don’t even want to think about what she does in private, if ya get my drift. nudge nudge. wink.
January 28, 2010 at 10:58 pm
voteaudrey, i didn’t give myself the ribbon…lmfao…i am never a cocky person (get it)
January 28, 2010 at 11:00 pm
I adore these chicken lamps. They glow with the divine and terrible light of Zuul:
http://twitpic.com/109y08
January 29, 2010 at 1:52 am
I’m right there with you, Dynomoose. But at least I have a tenuous excuse to like ‘em: my area of study tends to overlap strongly with public health.
Those’d be so awesome in a department’s meet’n'greet area. “Welcome to the University of X’s School of Public Health. Oh, the chickens? Failed test subjects.”
(There’s also probably a former Soviet union/radiation joke to be made, but it’s too late for my brain.)
January 29, 2010 at 3:05 am
Yeah well in this case I think the artist ran afoul of good taste…
January 29, 2010 at 4:18 am
can someone ps a halk chicken purse???? I suck at pics
January 29, 2010 at 5:57 am
#83 just made me LOL!
January 29, 2010 at 6:14 am
I need this for my front window. Then I would stand out in front of my house and tell everyone it’s a major award.
January 29, 2010 at 6:38 am
Wow, that is a line of gibberish worthy of (I was going to mention a recent ex-governor, but I’ll keep it nonpartisan). Nothing like somebody trying to use words they only partly understand.
Is that a real chicken? When the bulb get hot, does it make your whole apartment smell like chicken? Chicken potpourri?
January 29, 2010 at 8:13 am
#88 istillheartbretmichaels:
If you display it in your front window, maybe we can get A happy Etsy crafter to make outfits for it
January 29, 2010 at 8:29 am
Interesting……but not interesting enough to buy.
Someone on Etsy makes lamps out of real skulls and those are way wicked!
January 29, 2010 at 9:08 am
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/grinreaper1965/etextratasty.jpg
January 29, 2010 at 9:22 am
@ Skully
stuff that bird with Reese’s Pieces
January 29, 2010 at 10:20 am
I look forward to starting my day with Regretsy and a good hard laugh at the comments and photoshops, etc. Thank you, all!
January 29, 2010 at 10:27 am
When she decided to write the description I think she chose words she liked from the dictionary and threw them at random onto the screen.
January 29, 2010 at 10:56 am
BEEF
IT’S WHATS FOR DINNER!!!!!!!!
January 29, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Guess What? I found his head!
http://twitpic.com/10d1lv
January 29, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Alright, for a change I can’t find much to insult, and I’m going to be the one person who thinks her stuff is kinda brilliant – did anyone look at the rest of it? I love the felted wall in particular. You have to say all kinds of conceptual nonsense about installations, goes with the territory, and I don’t actually mind a whole wall of illuminated chicken carcasses, there’s a statement in there somewhere, but ONE by itself looks like a gag. I’d buy something from her if I could afford…
January 29, 2010 at 1:22 pm
I don’t know about Modern World Society, but my diagnosis of the future world society is that the stupid and pretentious shall inherit the Earth unless something is done about this pandemic.
Where’s the “I will not pretend to wait for you to wake up again, the universal mind all times wake up all times” shirt guy? I wanna shove a light bulb up his ass along with this seller. Who wants to help me with the instaliation? I’ll make chicken.
January 29, 2010 at 3:10 pm
This person would sell that if they changed their the description to…
“Dude, check out this fucking crazy shit. A fuckin chicken lamp!!! Isn’t it awesome? ” “Fuckin-A!”.
That would at lest attract the stoners with the munchies surfing Etsy.
But no, instead they preach about some gas ass political bullshit.
January 29, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I’m sure if PETA saw this exhibit they would demand that the artist “pullet down”.
DX OOOOH! OW!
I hurt even *myself* with that pun.
February 7, 2010 at 11:49 pm
If I was irresponsibly wealthy I would buy everything on regresty (including this, oh god, including this) and put it all in a room designed to freak people out