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[Pickman's model]

I'll just leave the latest incarnation of shitty 'edginess' here...

Shocking Public Artwork Turns UK's Homeless into "Human Tamagotchi"
Artist Kristian von Hornsleth has bought and sold homeless people to various buyers. He’s then fitted them with tracking devices so the buyers and the public can follow them.

• Kevin Holmes
  
  Jun 30 2017, 3:39pm
  
  
  Screencaps by the author.
  
  Over the last year, Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth has been buying homeless people off the streets of the UK and selling them as artworks. If you're wondering, it's all part of a new conceptual artwork: the Hornsleth Homeless Tracker.
  
  The press release for the project describes it as, an "ethical boundary smashing work, which fuses homelessness, privacy invasion, inequality, and reality TV, with present day cultural decadence and interactive conceptual art."
  
  
  The way it works is that each homeless person, ten in total, has been fitted with a tracking device, so the buyer, or owner, can follow them 24/7 through an exclusive app, "effectively converting the homeless into a real-life Pokémon Goor human Tamagotchi."

Shocking Public Artwork Turns UK's Homeless into "Human Tamagotchi"

kristian von hornsleth's next exhibition will be in grytviken, as he has been appointed artist to the south georgia canal project.

 

[iona]

This thread getting bumped is making me wish I'd kept the note I recently found in a book someone left on my pitch last year, so I post it and share my rage.

 

[NoXion]

This thread getting bumped is making me wish I'd kept the note I recently found in a book someone left on my pitch last year, so I post it and share my rage.

Can you remember the gist of it?

 

[iona]

Can you remember the gist of it?

It was just full of shitty assumptions and patronising nonsense (you shouldn't give up on yourself / think you're worthless / etc type stuff, trying to tell me what I think and what I'm like) with a bit of hopelessly naive optimism thrown in for good measure. There was a whole side of A4 printed in a fairly small font!