You Are What You Read is not just a book, it is a manifesto for a movement: it is not a call for us to ignore the negative but rather a call to not ignore the positive.
... Let friends in your social network know what you are reading about. These pictures that you are looking at below is the “art” exhibit of Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, an artist from Central America.What this man did was take a stray dog off the streets of some Central American country and tied him up with two ropes in an “art” exhibit. This clearly gave the impression to many that the dog had been starved to death. I read what was the group about and basically it was about an artist doing animal cruelty for art. Written in dog food on a gallery wall was the statement, “Eres lo que lees,” meaning, “You are what you read.” The center of attention was a sickly-looking street dog tied to a metal cable bolted to the wall with a short rope.
Guillermo Vargas - Eres Lo Que Lees (You Are What You Read) (2007) Okay, listen now. The exposition included the burning of 175 pieces of crack cocaine and an ounce of marijuana while the Sandinista anthem played backwards. Categories. However, the dog had actually been able to escape from the gallery, and Vargas had never said that the dog had died in real life. Tied up with no food or water he let the dog starve to death, with the title ‘Eres Lo Que Lees’ (‘You Are What You Read’) written in dog food on the wall behind the animal. By Rachel Gagnon | Published Feb 21, 2010 | Full size is 360 × 265 pixels dog. In 2007 artist Guillermo Vargas took a stray dog from the streets of Nicaragua, and tied it to a short leash in an art gallery, titling his exhibit "Eres Lo Que Lees" ("You Are What You Read"). Guillermo Vargas, “Eres Lo Que Lees (You Are What You Read)” (2007) Guillermo Vargas’ story is in a particularly sensitive vein, as it involves the supposedly-intentional starvation of an innocent animal.
Guillermo VarGas’s Exposition #1 ... [you are what you read], but it is popularly identified with the vulgar phrase “starving dog art.” Habacuc’s careful construction of his installation consisted of the following symbolic elements: 1) the sound Believe what you want. It was entitled "Eres Lo Que Lees" (You Are What You Read) which he spelled out in dog biscuits alongside the animal, but out of its reach. The words “you are what you read” was written on the wall behind this dog in Espanola.
Guillermo Vargas, “Exposición No.1,” 2007. Vargas tethered the animal without food and water under the words 'Eres Lo Que Lees' - 'You Are What You Read' - made out of dog biscuits while he …
serve as moments of investigation: the viral and internationally web based denouncements of Guillermo Vargas Jiménez, and his piece Eres Lo Que Lees (You Are What You Read), which included an emaciated dog tied to a wall by a length of rope; the closing of the entire Adel Abdessemed Don't Trust Me exhibit at the San Francisco It asks us to change the way we consume the news and shows us how, through our choices, we have the power to improve our media diet, our mental health and just possibly the world. His story was that the dog was only tied up for three hours at a time and was fed regularly, and escaped and was never saw again. Galería Códice, Managua, Nicaragua. I'm not posting this to contribute to the internet fracas surrounding whether or not this "starve a dog" piece actually happened, or its ethical implications etc. In an interview, he stated that the dog died in the artwork. Why You Should Read Poems. Fall 2019 Issue About.