Artist Cooks Meal In Own Body Fat

[Metal Head]

From correspondents in Santiago
January 13, 2007 09:12am
Article from: Agence France-Presse

"BON APPETIT," said Chilean artist Marco Evaristti as he presented his friends with his newest creation: meatballs cooked with fat from his own body, extracted by liposuction. "Ladies and gentleman, bon appetit and may god bless," said Evaristti, a glass in his hand, to his dining companions seated Thursday night around a table in Santiago's Animal Gallery. On the plates in front of them was a serving of agnolotti pasta and in the middle a meatball made with oil Evaristti removed from his body in a liposuction procedure last year. "The question of whether or not to eat human flesh is more important than the result," he said, explaining the point of his creation. "You are not a cannibal if you eat art," he added. Evaristti produced 48 meatballs with his own fat, some of which would be canned and sold for $US4000 dollars for 10. A veteran at shock-art, in an earlier work Evaristti invited people to kill fish by pressing the button on a blender the fish were held in. In April 2004 he dyed an enormous iceberg in Greenland with red paint.

[AlexS]

How tasteless.

[Wongo]

Typical artist - wanker.

[ss_11000]

[Shedhand]

This is in the Peter Greenaway style. One of my favourite directors. This was a brilliant piece of arthouse work. But not everyone's cup of tea. Not suitable for under 15's.

[pawnhead]

If you enjoy being revolted by a true story, then read up on Armin Meiwes.
You'll need a strong stomach for that one though.