Nutjobs January 12, 2007
Artist cooks meal in own body fat
January 13, 2007 09:12am
Article from: Agence France-Presse
“Ladies and gentleman, bon appetit and may god bless,” said Evaristti, a glass in his hand, to his dining companions seated Thursday night around a table in Santiago’s Animal Gallery.Â
On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle a meatball made with oil Evaristti removed from his body in a liposuction procedure last year.
“The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result,” he said, explaining the point of his creation.
“You are not a cannibal if you eat art,” he added.
Evaristti produced 48 meatballs with his own fat, some of which would be canned and sold for $US4000 dollars for 10.
A veteran at shock-art, in an earlier work Evaristti invited people to kill fish by pressing the button on a blender the fish were held in.
In April 2004 he dyed an enormous iceberg in Greenland with red paint.
