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The C Word Notes and Other Fables.

Monday, February 18th, 2008

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A local Mel­bourne sculp­tor, Greg Tay­lor, who from what I can tell from likes to incite in order to get publi­city for his work, had a local exhi­bit run­ning tit­led “Cunts”.

Pos­ters like the one depic­ted were evi­dently used as adver­ti­se­ments, but were torn down because they were con­si­de­red offensive.

I found the refe­rence to this ori­gi­nally at “Dog­ma­tic” in a post tit­led Cunts. You will find some pho­tos of the exhi­bit at dog­ma­tics flickr set. Accor­ding to blog­ged by jane wil­son this sculp­tor had 120 woman ages 18 to 84 as artist models for this body of work.

Now, I don’t care that Jane Fonda used the C word, and the net­work had to issue an apo­logy. I find it a little insane (really totally without rea­son) that some peo­ple called it the “most vile word in human lan­guage”. ( I can per­so­nally think of many other words more vile star­ting with mur­der, rape, star­va­tion, and geno­cide, but hey that’s just me) I’m also aware of the the lin­guis­tic ine­qua­lity the word has suf­fe­red. Des­pite it all I don’t want to rec­laim the word. I find it a sharp vul­gar word, best used to ins­till fear. We should save it for that. Used pejo­ra­ti­vely the mea­ning of the word is a modern cons­truc­tion. In ancient times they knew bet­ter, but hey what can you do.

As for the real thing I don’t have to rec­laim it, I’ve never lost it. I take it whe­re­ver I go. Just in case.

I don’t care about the C word, though it never fails when someone wri­tes a book, a play, or exhi­bits a piece of art in which the vagina is the main cha­rac­ter there is always atten­tion to be had.

What I do care about is the ans­wer to this question.

Do you really think 120 fema­les age 18 to 120 really put their all out there for this guy to sculpt, or are some of these pie­ces deri­ved from his imagination.