Madeleine McCann: But Is It Porn?
MADDIE WATCH – Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
TO Hackney, London, where our Maddy is appearing in a hall, on a wall.
It’s Maddy Porn. It’s mourn porn. Have look, if you dare…
Church leaders have united in condemnation of the artists behind the “vile” Madeleine McCann porn stunt. Decima Gallery, based in Smeed Road, Hackney Wick, sparked outrage last month when they invited visitors to paste images of the missing toddler onto pornographic magazines.
Hackney Wick – makes yer sick.
Isn’t causing outrage the driver behind modern art? The more pole you can upset, the better. So the show is a hit, right?
Now a group of senior church figures, the borough deans of Hackney, has joined the chorus of criticism.
Hackney has a borough dean? Aren’t all churches in Hackney now studio flats? Shocking news, indeed:
In a joint letter to the Gazette, they wrote: “There is an urgent need in our society to recover awareness of a shared and agreed moral code. This does not help that by the exhibiting of “hard-core pornography” under the cover of “art”, which discredits art itself and artists in Hackney.”
Better stick to those art works depicting saints being burnt alive and red hot pokers being shoved into holes various and a man nailed to a cross…
Decima, which moved to the borough last year, has carved out a reputation for staging provocative exhibitions and events.
So now shock, then, just a gallery doing what it was set up to do?
The Gazette revealed last month how the gallery hosted a “delightful afternoon of ‘hardcore porn,’ inspired by the financial crisis in the American adult entertainment industry.
Porn in the public sphere as entertainment. Never! If you must look at sick and depraved images surf the internet like everyone else. This is just sick!
About 40 visitors watched the infamous 1972 pornographic film, Deep Throat, and took part in discussions about the porn industry.
A whole 40. Does that include the gallery’s staff, journalists, artists, outraged vicars and the usherettes?
However, it was the images of Madeleine McCann that provoked widespread condemnation from children’s charities and politicians.
Can we see those ones again?
The artists behind the stunt have continued to defend themselves in the face of universal condemnation.
Artist enjoys publicity – read all about it!
Rather than apologise for its actions, Decima has continued to defend the stunt and says it hopes it has provoked “sensible debate” about the media’s coverage of the Madeleine story.
Lets have sensible debate!
Let’s have a paedophile porn amnesty. Sensible..?
Posted: 7th, February 2009 | In: Madeleine McCann, Reviews Comments (12) | TrackBack | Permalink
