Pierre Maillard /// Secondshit

We already knew Artist Shit (Merda d’artista), a work of art made in 1961 by the italian artist Piero Manzoni, who collected 30 grams of feces in 90 numbered cans ; more recently, we’ve heard of the Cloaca, an installation that produces feces, which was created in 2000 by Wim Delvoye. Whether these feces were canned or produced by a machine, they were real, organic.

Now, here is the virtual shit, SecondShit for SecondLife. Indeed, this virtual world was too clean to be honest and it lacked a part of shit in it (virtual shit, in this case). Now, this lack is filled.

But, as a proof of the fact that the « subversive » power of shit is still enduring, Fabiana de Barros’s Fiteiro Cultural, which gave out free SecondShit, was evicted recently from its virtual island by the virtual owner of this island.

It’s strange to notice that although virtual sex, virtual casinos or virtual forgery are accepted on SecondLife, virtual shit is still not accepted. Is it because it remains too « real », thus showing us how organic we remain ?

Pierre Maillard

 
FITEIRO CULTURAL © Fabiana de Barros. All art works reproduced with courtesy of the artists.
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