@ Osweo ("Fowl" Russian protest art prank)

**~~Eldritch~~** · 07-26-2010, 09:49 PM

WTF ?!? (proceed with care, NSFW)

**~~Osweo~~** · 07-26-2010, 10:13 PM

Good Gods....

*gulp*

I'm still pretty shocked, but I'll read the text now....

**~~Eldritch~~** · 07-26-2010, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by Osweo

Good Gods....

*gulp*

I'm still pretty shocked, but I'll read the text now....

Just a quick overview on what the hell this is about, please (Google couldn't make any sense of it).

Strictly in the interests of cultural anthropology, of course.

**~~Peasant~~** · 07-26-2010, 10:30 PM

What on earth?

**~~Osweo~~** · 07-26-2010, 11:52 PM

It's a live 'action' art thingy... She called it 'How they cunted the chicken'... (cunt can be used as a verb in Russian, meaning various things like steal, lie, take the piss... )

Акция, как я сразу же догадался, была аллюзией на забытые произведения Чернышевского, Добролюбова, Писарева и Пестеля
The Action, as I immediately guessed, was an allusion to the forgotten work of Chernyshevsky ...

He wrote 'What is to be done' in Tsarist times, and sat for 17 years in prison for his troubles.

They gave a link to another weird thing they did here;
http://plucer.livejournal.com/97416.html
(marking the anniversary of the Execution of the Decembrists...)

There is also an allusion to Tolstoy's fable of the 'Peasant and the Cucumbers', as well as some other arty 'installation' whatever that might mean, called 'Tolstoy and the Chickens' by Oleg Kulik.

They did summat else like this, apparently fucking in a museum...

See the NSFW pic here; http://ljplus.ru//img4/p/l/plucer/IMG_0044.jpg

The big signs with letters on spell 'Blya' i.e. slut and a worse word in Russian than its English literal translation...

Their organisation is thought of as some radical revolutionary group, whose 'president' is called Lyonya the Fucked, and the 'first lady' is called Seven-arshin-cunt (arshin is an old unit of measurement. I calculate the depth of the cunt to around 14 feet)...

'Around the chicken, a discussion took place, on life and death... and on the cunt as the 'gates of hell'...'

'The chicken was no simple opponant, but the President's spouse began to shove it into her Hellish Bottomless Abyss'...

'the chicken struggled silently, succumbing to the cold of the afterworld....

... she recited Old Russian charms...'

There's some anti materialist, anti money slogans... That's how they justify the Bezblyadno placards...

Hmmm... such people used to get sent to the GULag...

**~~Eldritch~~** · 07-27-2010, 12:11 AM

Here is some info about the group's previous escapades.

I suppose I understand why people do these things. A lack of real artistic talent, or the will to apply oneself to the task of creating something of real and lasting artistic value, combined with a need to make point (of some kind) is no doubt one factor.

Another is that cunts, cocks, fucking etc. are universal and will always be noticed.

The big signs with letters on spell 'Blya' i.e. slut and a worse word in Russian than its English literal translation...

The Estonian derogatory slang word for Russian is tibla, apparently based on the Soviet soldiers' nomenclature for Estonians: "you, slut". Charming, eh?

**~~Osweo~~** · 07-27-2010, 12:47 AM

Originally Posted by Eldritch

Here is some info about the group's previous escapades.

Heh, the big dick on the raising bridge made me giggle a little, at least...

The Estonian derogatory slang word for Russia is tibla, apparently based on the Soviet soldiers' nomenclature for Estonians: "you, slut". Charming, eh?

Heh! The French had a similar thing for the English, from the Hundred Years War. Les Goddams...