Bodyworks Exhibition

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I just read Le Monde and the French have banned that creepy exhibition where that German doctor puts lots of deconstructed dead bodies on display. From memory, they banned the exhibition because: 1. They were not fully satisfied about the provenance of the bodies. 2. They thought that it was ghoulish. I wish that we had done the same in England. I am all for understanding the human body and all that comes with that, but, for me, this was something else.

I went to that body works when it was in manchester. I really enjoyed it, I didn't find it goulish at all. I don't see why they should ban it, it's educational, it's interesting and I have always been interested in how the body works and that exibition showed me exactly that.

Read about all the arguments, moral, ethical, medical or otherwise, on why you should not attend these exhibitions here:

http://www.corpseshow.info/

"It's educational" has always been the ready excuse for these spectacles. If you must really need to "educate" yourself about the goings-on of the human body spend an afternoon at your local library and thumb through a copy of Gray's Anatomy instead. It might be dry and boring but at least you're not contributing to the rendering and processing of political prisoners' bodies in what is now a burgeoning Chinese cottage industry.

I don't need to see some skinless Chinese pro-democracy dissenter propped up to look like he's about to serve a tennis ball in order to learn about the human musculoskeletal system. An unholy union of the macabre and the kitschy indeed...

Sure, go ahead and wax poetic about this so-called doctor and attribute to him a string of romantic phrases and buzzwords. When you get right down to it he's just your garden variety opportunist trying to make a quick buck.


From http://www.asianresearch.org/articles/2262.html:

am thought the show that ...something ..gunthenberg? [can never remember his name] did was great,was not able to go to it but watched the recorded ones he did for channel four,it isnt a programme to show off gore,but to show how bodies work and look at a raw level,and some of the models he has made are almost like art-like the horse he did,he's making this sort of stuff more interesting to a wider audience,but it obviously isnt everyones thing.