Spain: Artist gets threats after eating Qur'an

Those who are threatening Abel Azcona should lighten up. He just wanted to digest the Qur'an's lessons and draw nourishment from their wisdom. "Spanish Artist Receives Threats After Eating Koran," by Cheradenine Zakalwe for Islam Versus Europe, January 22:
The Navarran artist Abel Azcona, international exponent of performance art, is receiving threats because of his work "Eating a Koran", in which he eats pages from the book sacred to Muslims.

The piece forms part of an invetigation [sic] project initiated during a residency on the topic of religious fundamentalism and the need to "nourish ourselves with fiction, lies and fear". Specifically, this project consists of an installation, a performance and a video work, in which the artist eats a copy of the Koran over eight hours as a critique of religious radicalism. "I believe in freedom of expression, provocation and artistic freedom, and I will certainly continue doing so today, tomorrow and always," comments Abel Azcona, who has been threated by anonymous letters, emails and SMS.

"I believe in art as a critical tool and to create debate about the politics of identity", adds the Navarran artist, who has received criticism ever since he started in performance art, "but they will never change my way of thinking and working; what's more, the threats clarify my path, and I know that I am in the right." For that reason he will go on using art "as a critical weapon for whoever wants to feel it and listen to it." Source: Deia.com H/T: Maria José
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I like my Quran well cooked, with mustard and mayo...then I wash it down with a beer or twelve...

I never eat pages of the Quran, I try to avoid all GMO products and foods of uncertain origin.

I certainly would not defile myself by eating that pagan book, but using it to start a camp fire or to wipe oneself afer defecation is another matter.

I know there is a joke somewhere in here about "holy shit", but I just can't figure it out.

For those interested in Photos, I found them on the artist's site:

http://www.abel-azcona.com/eating-a-koran

What's wrong with eating a copy of the Quran? Muhammad's followers used to est his sputum!

Muhammad spat in the dough and in the meat-pot and they all ate from it. (Bukhari 5.59.428)

http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/11/glory-of-muhammad.html

This "performance" has been done before....

[Narrated 'Aisha] "The verse of the stoning and of suckling an adult ten times were revealed, and they were (written) on a paper and kept under my bed. When the messenger of Allah expired and we were preoccupied with his death, a goat entered and ate away the paper."

Imagine an artists wiping his ass with the pages of Koran. Death on the spot.
M

reading that unholy filth is bad enough ...

I like the fact that when it "eventually" comes out the other end it is mixed with the proper ingredients - LOL

Where are all the intelligentsia, art mavens, literati, and illiterately uncritical art critics (of the West, of course) who have for decades fawned over the likes of Mapplethorpe (coffee-table photography of underage boys posing as Art), Andres Serrano (the Piss Christ exhibit), Chris Ofili (the elephant dung Virgin Mary exhibit), "performance artist" Karen Finley (whose exhibitionist exhibit was to cover her naked body in chocolate and who once on the Bill Maher show praised a recent show of "performance art" she saw that consisted entirely of a naked black man maintaining an erection for hours), Christo & Jeanne-Claude (whose staff spent exorbitant amounts of money wrapping public places in colorful paper -- elevating child-like precocity to the sublime heights of asinine childishness funded by millionaires); not to mention among many others we could name, the derivative hack Basquiat, and the king of shit art Andy Warhol -- now that they have an artist in Abel Azcona putting his life on the line for the freedom of anti-establishment expression that is the very heart of post-post-modern Art?

Does there exist an exhibit somewhere in the empty halls of a gallery where the rooms and walls are utterly bare, where it is mostly dark with indirect lighting seeping in from the utility closet, and where the visitor can only hear sounds of the wind and crickets chirping...? Call that piece, The Answer to Your Good Question.

And where are the diversity coaches/cultural enrichment scholars?

"Your words were found, and I did eat them..."

http://bible.cc/jeremiah/15-16.htm

If ever there was a time to pray before eating, then this was it!

Ohhhhh! GROaaaNNN!

You beat me to it! I was already composing [pun alert!...wondering just how the composting! would've worked itself out!.....]

Ok Ok Ok ...I ducking, no more shoes, please!..

Two words...Food Poisoning.

Interesting and very unusual (in the best possible way) idea for photographic art, personally would never do that for fear of what it would do to my stomach but definitely more power to him. I hope it didn't cause the artist any stomach aches...and has made an invest in some stylish Kevlar or something similar.

As for the Islamofascists, all I have to say is GROW UP! The rest of us have to put up with artists putting in their two cents about our religions...ain't nothing sacred to artists. If its that offensive, in the civilize world either we mount letter writing campaigns and "trolling" or we all point and laugh (either literally or in the art critic pages)...but I know that the Mohammedins aren't part of the civilized world.

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