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To: Buckey who wrote (115901)	6/13/2003 11:32:28 AM
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Excrement exhibition at publicly funded gallery has Alliance MP holding OTTAWA, Jun 13, 2003 (The Canadian Press via COMTEX) -- Here's a scoop that has Canadian Alliance MP Chuck Strahl holding his nose. A contemporary art gallery in Ottawa supported by federal tax dollars is staging a multimedia, interactive exhibition dedicated to excrement. The five-week show, which opens at an Ottawa art gallery next Thursday, is called Scatalogue: 30 years of crap in contemporary art. The Saw Gallery received a two-year, $72,000 operating grant from the Canada Council for the Arts last year, but no council funding was earmarked specifically for Scatalogue. A media release for the "living, interactive archive" says the exhibition is "a critique of the conservatism affecting most galleries in the country. "It assails the bourgeois art world as well, in a time when the commodification of contemporary art is simply out of control." But Strahl, the Alliance critic for heritage, says it is the spending of tax dollars that is out of control. "It's the kind of thing that drives taxpayers crazy. I think Canadians find that kind of stuff neither poetic nor artistic," said the MP from B.C.'s Fraser Valley. "It takes the old joke objects you buy at the joke store to a new level. Some people think it's funny to leave imitation crap on somebody's sheets. This has been left on the taxpayers' hands and I don't imagine they're going to be too amused." Among the more than 25 Canadian and international artists in the show is Belgium's Wim Delvoye, who recently sold out his edition of freeze-dried, vacuum-packed "completely biologically correct" excrement at $1,500 US per baggie. "Facism, anti-semitism, sexism, homophobia, racism, consumerism and globalization are issues tackled by some of the artists," said the Scatalogue media release. "The ideas are conveyed through painting, sculpture, photography, multiples, book works, film, video, performance art and creative writing." The common denominator is dung, which the curators of the show note is a common anthropological subject and object in museums but "remains controversial" in the art world. A spokeswoman for the Canada Council for the Arts said no grant was made for the show itself. "The Canada Council for the Arts provides an operating grant to the Saw Gallery and many other art galleries across that country, but that money is not earmarked for a specific project," said Donna Balkan. Curators Jason and Stefan St-Laurent did not immediately return phone calls. The online source for news sports entertainment finance and business news in Ca ada Copyright (C) 2003 The Canadian Press (CP), All rights reserved -0- ProviderSequenceNumber: 18385020 KEYWORD: OTTAWA SUBJECT CODE: entertainment * end of story *