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Donald Trump Bluebottle Factory Head
Full title: The Donald Trump Bluebottle Factory Head versus the Michael Forbes, Salmon in the Mouth, ramshackle farm holding. Another celebration of the beloved kingdom of the fly. | |
Donald Trump is attempting to build a
multi-million pound golf course in
Scotland, but the project has courted
controversy and "Trump is battling local
salmon fisherman Michael Forbes, who is
refusing to sell up. His ramshackle 25-
acre (10 hectare) farm lies right in the
middle of the proposed
second hole and
hotel site." (yahoo.com)
I now propose a piece of work that
symbolises the heroic struggle of the
plain
man Forbes against the mega-rich
Trump.
The work will consist of a replica Trump
head, equipped with a small hatch on the
back of its scalp. This hatch enables
dollar
shaped cuts of meat to access the head
via
a mechanical conveyor belt.
Once in place, each piece of meat enters
the perfect warm environment of the
nurturing Trump. This results in the
generation of large flies which
periodically
emerge from between the pouting lips of
the head.
Contained within the space enclosing the
work is a model of the controversial site,
featuring another replica head of
Trump's
opponent, the redoubtable Mr Forbes.
The Forbes head has a salmon gripped
between its teeth, featuring an open
mouth, that exudes the fly attracting
glow
of a blue neon golf ball.
Flies emitted from the Trump head
inevitably make their way into the
salmon's mouth where they are promptly
zapped by a high voltage charge.
Each fly zapping incident also generates
the recorded sound of a cheering and
applauding audience. Spectators are
encouraged to join in by cranking the
machine which powers the apparatus.
(this
also randomly agitates the Trump head
into a hair flicking frenzy)
(With an acknowledgement of Damien
Hirst's fly generating piece. Sorry
Damien,
but I outlined an idea for a fly factory at
college, years before you - except you
had
the money to build it !)
Trump versus Forbes
http://news.monster...s_one_wily_Scotsman one of numerous reports [xenzag, Nov 25 2007]
Damien Hirst: A Thousand Years (Interview)
http://www.youtube....watch?v=0rESmxFXAd8 [jutta, Nov 25 2007]
Trump head
http://www.soxfirst...0226711/donald.jpeg in fly emission mode [xenzag, May 27 2008]
Local Hero
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/ Rather splendid 1983 film featuring a strangely reminiscent scenario. [DrBob, May 29 2008]
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Didn't mean to churn this again, but I had
to put up that pic of Trump I just found. |
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I was wholeheartedly in favour of this until I got to the sound effects. From my perspective, the installation - for want of a better word - would be better if it was silent and in its silence, less obviously broadcasting its viewpoint. Magnificent nonetheless, and sorely undercroissanted. |
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Brilliant piece of art. Has Damien Hirsch already done this? |
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I don't remember a Zardoz-style head full of flies in Local Hero, DrBob! |
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