Faculty and staff members of S.F. Art Institute will meet with the public March 31, 2008, to discuss an SFAI video exhibition that has been called animal abuse by In Defense of Animals (IDA). Adel Abdessemed’s exhibition, "Don’t Trust Me," which opened in the Walter and McBean Galleries on Wednesday, 19 March, has been "temporarily suspended." IDA sent an alert to its members about the exhibit which consisted of six monitors displaying video images of six different animals -- a doe, a goat, a horse, an ox, a pig and a sheep -- being bludgeoned to death with a large sledgehammer. The alert asked concerned people to contact the president of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the installation's sponsor, urging him to shut it down immediately on the grounds that "animal abuse is not art, but merely a cruel and self-serving bid for attention."
(See
http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/ notice-description.tcl?newsletter_id=13109878.)

SFAI has posted a notice on the Web about the upcoming discussion, describing the exhibit as "images of events that took place—and regularly take place—in the real world. Their being depicted in video by Abdessemed is part of a long representational tradition, in Western art and beyond."
(See: http://www.sfai.edu/page.aspx?page=285 &navID=587§ionID=4.)

   

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