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Source: Thelondonpaper
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Ejaculating artist arouses Church fury
Controversial performance artist Jordan McKenzie, 40, is exhibiting 55 images he made by ejaculating over canvas and sprinkling carbon over the results to immortalise them.
The results of his handywork, entitled 'Spent' are to go on display at the Centre for Recent Drawing in Highbury, north London, for a month.
Father Kit Cunningham, of St Etheldredas Church in Clerkenwell, said: “All we can do is pray for the artist.”
The clergyman, based at the oldest Roman Catholic church in London, stressed: “The extraordinary thing is that someone actually thought it was art and put it on at his gallery.
“We are clearly dealing with a very mixed-up person.
Art lover and artist David Gleeson said: “Tracy Emin showed her knickers but this is a different thing entirely.
“I am in favour of almost any form of expression but I do baulk at ejaculating over a piece of paper."
Jordan, who intends to create three drawings a week, said: “This is only the first batch of them.
“It is a diary of my ejaculations they are heartfelt and delicate."
He admitted his mother had no idea about his latest work, but added: "I don't think it would bother her that much.
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I think that this isn't so much art, even if he calls it so. But if we'd like to insist, well then me eating rich foods, taking an hour or two to digest it, and then taking a shit and photographing it makes it art when I've declared it.
I think that the point of this thread, comes to bear in this discussion, we all agree that there is art somewhere, we just don't know at what point it becomes or stops being art.
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