Todd-'o'-Vision
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America isn’t the only country in the world where taxpayers are forced to hand over some of their hard-earned money for government-mandated transfer to artists who can’t survive in the private sector. Evidently it happens in England also.
The taxpayers of England have fixin’ to pay big bucks to Franko B. Franko is going to appear in the annual festival of performance art in the British midlands later this month. Would you like to know what Franko is going to do for his taxpayer loot? He’s going to take a razor and make a 10 cm incision across his stomach. He’s then going to stand there for six hours while blood trickles down his body. He even has a doctor on hand to make sure the wound doesn’t heal until the “performance” is over. One-by-one individuals will be invited to file into Franko’s room where they can spend a couple of precious minutes with the immensely talented artist.
The festival director thinks this is all fine. He says Franko’s canvas is his body and his main material is his blood. The director has over $100,000 of British taxpayer’s money to spend on his festival. He won’t say how much Franko is getting.
This isn’t new. A similar piece of “performance art” took place at taxpayer’s expense in the US several years ago. The performer took the stage with another man who was HIV positive. The “artist” took a razor and made several cuts in the HIV patient’s back. The blood flowed rather nicely. The “artist” took some paper towels and used them to soak up the HIV positive blood. He then attached these bloody paper towels to a clothesline that was stretched over the audience. Using pulleys he sent the towels to hang over audience members. This, my friends, was art paid for by taxpayers.
Your government at work.
The taxpayers of England have fixin’ to pay big bucks to Franko B. Franko is going to appear in the annual festival of performance art in the British midlands later this month. Would you like to know what Franko is going to do for his taxpayer loot? He’s going to take a razor and make a 10 cm incision across his stomach. He’s then going to stand there for six hours while blood trickles down his body. He even has a doctor on hand to make sure the wound doesn’t heal until the “performance” is over. One-by-one individuals will be invited to file into Franko’s room where they can spend a couple of precious minutes with the immensely talented artist.
The festival director thinks this is all fine. He says Franko’s canvas is his body and his main material is his blood. The director has over $100,000 of British taxpayer’s money to spend on his festival. He won’t say how much Franko is getting.
This isn’t new. A similar piece of “performance art” took place at taxpayer’s expense in the US several years ago. The performer took the stage with another man who was HIV positive. The “artist” took a razor and made several cuts in the HIV patient’s back. The blood flowed rather nicely. The “artist” took some paper towels and used them to soak up the HIV positive blood. He then attached these bloody paper towels to a clothesline that was stretched over the audience. Using pulleys he sent the towels to hang over audience members. This, my friends, was art paid for by taxpayers.
Your government at work.
