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  Re: Karolina Sobecka's WILDLIFE

  Top of the Food Chain

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  Deke Weaver School of Art & Design, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

  Saturday, April 2, 2011 — 7:28 pm

  Thanks for the plug Lisa.  The stories of Animals Running Amok and Animals Breaking Out are so intense.  I just heard one in Salt Lake City about an 1800's elephant that ran through the city brandishing an ax with her trunk.  And there's the bat ...
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  Re: The Big Toe on the Obelisk; or, the problematic of the Perverse in public art

  On the other hand, when it’s

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  Deke Weaver School of Art & Design, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

  Tuesday, March 29, 2011 — 6:24 pm

  On the other hand, when it's 10,000 degrees in Chicago, it's kind of nice to sit in the pool and get spat on by smiling giant faces.  If you'd like to talk about modern day prudery, we could talk about old bronze fountains of young men piss ...
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  Re: The Big Toe on the Obelisk; or, the problematic of the Perverse in public art

  Yeah, this makes sense.  I

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  Deke Weaver School of Art & Design, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

  Saturday, April 2, 2011 — 7:04 pm

  Yeah, this makes sense.  I love the details you have about the piece (that's a LOT of water).  I just saw a talk by Erika Doss about monuments- particularly monuments down in Texas and New Mexico of Juan de Oñate, a Spanish conquistador who did some ...
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  Re: Karolina Sobecka's WILDLIFE

  Virtual Animals

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  Deke Weaver School of Art & Design, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)

  Tuesday, March 29, 2011 — 6:07 pm

  Yeah, the Disney lock on animals is intense- Earth Day movie releases, decades of kids (me) giving human voices to animals, dark scary movie music anytime a predator comes on screen.  Disney is very conflicted, sort of like BP and it's "green&qu ...