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quote: Richard Whitehurst is a Columbus-based artist who made his mark on the Ohio scene by showing at the William Strunk Jr. Museum of Contemporary Art in Akron and internationally regarded galleries such as Alexandria Asheton Gallery and Seward Projects Space. He was the 2006 recipient of an Akron Culture Committee fellowship and has quickly become a seminal figure in the often overshadowed Rustbelt regional art scene, rapidly moving from sculpture and installation to more challenging situational based work that would make Nicolas Bourriaud’s head spin.
In fact, his new controversial work, THE RAPE TUNNEL, which is set to go on view at Columbus’ 4D Gallery on October 30th, has come under fire from Columbus-based feminist groups not to mention, local law enforcement officials. The artist plans to place himself in a room, the only entrance or exit being a 22 ft long plywood tunnel constructed by Whitehurst himself. Then he says that for the duration of the gallery’s opening (from 70 p.m. to midnight) he will rape anyone who travels through the tunnel into that room.
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http://www.artlurker.com/2009/09/the-rape-tunnel-by-sheila-zareno/
Read on for more lolls.
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_Allan_
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dibs
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willay
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best bit
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I started to think differently about my work. In 2007 at the Seward Projects Space in Columbus, I had my first breakthrough with an installation that was to be the prototype for this current one. It was called THE PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE TUNNEL. It was the same set-up as THE RAPE TUNNEL except at the end of the tunnel I’d punch the subject in the face instead of raping him or her. The impetus was completely reactionary to the current state of art, and motivated by pure frustration.
As it turns out, I ended up breaking the nose of the third person to crawl through the tunnel, an aspiring model. She went to the hospital and eventually sued me. Her modeling career was put on hold. The civil case was long and drawn out and the matter still hasn’t been resolved. To this day she still has unpaid medical bills. The point of this long aside is that all this took place two years ago, and I’m still having an impact on this young lady’s life, something not many other artists could claim about their work.
Rape seemed like the next logical step.
PMSL
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Cosmo
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Trust the feminist groups to get all pissy.
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DannyB
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lol at that, send a fucking dog through.
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Cosmo
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Send an AIDS sufferer through and then see how happy he is when a lasting effect is left on his life
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FlaFFy_91
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Wow thats got to be the lames peice of "art" ive ever seen
I thought that tracy woman was mental when she pissed and puked all over a bed and called it "art"
Now its just getting silly
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fuck sake, this bloke is a loon
"modern art" pfft.. these days you can just be sick on a persons lap on the bus and say "oh its ok its art"
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dan-sport
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he got in big trouble for breaking somebodys nose so he decided to change it to rape and he doesn't expect to get into trouble
tbh he's just gonna get aload of fat women who can't get any and gays who just want a quicky
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FlaFFy_91
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I think we should send in one of them tranny cage fighters from the news the other day
Thatl teach him haha
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Neo
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I like the bit when he says he wouldnt do a murder tunnel just because its a bit like him repeating himself
Stange Idea...and i'm sure he'll end up in prison or on the news or both
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oceansoul
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I woulda gone down the Punch-you-in-the-face tunnel....then fought back!!!!
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BarnshaW
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omfg
this guy deserves an award. Its the funniest thing i have read all week.
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DannyB
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I just read the comments, it's fake apparently...
quote: This is FAKE, the “tunnel” pictured is a wind tunnel produced by the Gevers Aircraft company, seen here: http://www.geversaircraft.com/wt/
The pictures here were taken directly from their website. Something I’m sure they would love to know.
Stunt by an artist to sucks.
Click on the picture on the right hand side of the above link.
[Edited on 08-10-2009 by DannyB]
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AndyKent
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Brilliant FPMSL!
I'd send that model down the tunnel, give her something to really complain about
Or my old boss from when I worked at Argos, he'd love it
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BarnshaW
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in MY mind this will always be a rape tunnel. I am going to pretend i never saw dannys post
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quote: Originally posted by BarnshaW
omfg
this guy deserves an award. Its the funniest thing i have read all week.
+1
absolute legend
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oceansoul
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send doyle in there
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sand-eel
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I thought it was fake right from the start, nobody could get away with it and it looked like some wind tunnel anyway.
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Ben J
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quote: Originally posted by sand-eel
I thought it was fake right from the start, nobody could get away with it and it looked like some wind tunnel anyway.
Bollocks.....it looks exactly like a rape tunnel
Wind tunnel my arse.
[Edited on 08-10-2009 by Ben J]
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N16K
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set up a to catch a predator type thing.
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_Allan_
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I'm building my own surprise sex tunnel as we speak. Just off to B&Q for some more nails
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sand-eel
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NooB, haven't you heard of no more nails?
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