FOURTH EXHIBITION
PANDORA'S MEAT
2004 - 2005
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PANDORA'S MEAT
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PRESS RELEASE JUNE 2005
THE 4TH SOLO EXHIBITION BY BRUCE STIRLING JOHN KNOX, ‘PANDORA’S
MEAT’ IS THE MOST VIOLENT ART NEW ZEALAND HAS SEEN. A ONE NIGHT ONLY
EVENT AT AUCKLAND CENTRAL’S 47 HIGH STREET, FROM 6PM, NEW ZEALAND. THESE
ALL NEW WORKS, FROM THIS PROLIFIC ARTIST, ARE A NATURAL EVOLUTION OF HIS DISTINCTIVE
STYLE, BOTH POWERFUL AND DIRECT. OFFENSIVE AS ANY AWFUL FACT OF LIFE, YET
SUBJECT MATTER SIMPLY TOO CONTROVERSIAL FOR MOST COMMERCIAL SPONSORS.
A PROFESSIONAL 2D ANIMATOR FOR THE PAST 8 YEARS (IN NEW ZEALAND AND JAPAN) BRUCE IS WELL AWARE OF THE THRESHOLD OF SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE, AND HAS KEPT HIS ART SEPARATE FROM THE MAINSTREAM BUSINESS OF “COMPROMISE”; AFFORDING HIM ABSOLUTE FREE RANGE INTEGRITY WITHIN HIS ART. PULLING NO PUNCHES. SOON AFTER ‘PANDORA’S MEAT’ BRUCE IS MOVING TO GERMANY TO EXPLORE THE UNDER BELLY OF THE REVERED BERLIN ART SCENE.
“JUST SO YOU KNOW, HR GIGER WILL NOT BE SENT YOUR WEBSITE ADDRESS, AT LEAST NOT BY ME. I WONDER WHO MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT HE WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SEEING THIS, AND WHAT THEY MUST THINK OF GIGER. I WILL, HOWEVER, TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT NATALIE PORTMAN'S MANAGEMENT WILL GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE YOUR WEBSITE, SINCE THEY SHOULD BE MADE AWARE OF YOUR EXISTENCE.AND YES, I DO THINK YOU ARE A PSYCHO, AND NO, THERE IS NO MORE............” LES BARANY, AGENT FOR H.R. GIGER.
”WELL, YOU MADE ME FEEL PHYSICALLY SICK, IF THAT WAS YOUR INTENTION.” KARL WILLS, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, YUKFOO ANIMATION
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Pandora’s Meat
An Exhibition.
An Artist’s Disgust.
So fuck you sidewalk psychologists, with your split second, bullshit regurgitated evaluations.
Fuck you and your fashionably late commentary, pissing on your own face with underlining clichés and utterly thoughtless explanations, conjured up out of your picture perfect arse holes to reason away this ugliness into your chocolate sweetened, cock sucking comfort zones. Basis less. Like your objectivity.
So fuck you. A snap of your fingers and you can read between the lines of commercial dimethyltryptamine that your MTV televangelists vomit down your fucking throats. Yes, you are empowered.
Oh, this is just another sexually frustrated example of a frightened little boy, hiding from the real issues. That he is powerless? Soulless? Godless? Fuck you. Face it every day.
Search for meaning. Search for value. Search for importance. Search for enlightenment down a vagina? Fuck off.
And our acts and lies soak the streets. Dead children on the curb, and infant sodomy for the gentlemen. Sell your soul? This world of meat is cheap. So fuck you.
And fuck you freedom bitching, animal activists. Lets all walk on consequenceless asphalt, and drink the purest piss-shit-water out of petroleum born plastic bottles. And hey, hurry back to your garbage sated sties, to vent your amphetamine / endorphin bombarded brains, as you commit mass play station murder and siphon another hit of the unadulterated violence from the tube to keep your antibiotic ridden hearts pumping. Pumping, motherfucker.
But it’s only fiction. And so is world peace. It’s only a theory. It’s only entertainment. No one is getting hurt.
And so this is only art. No one is getting hurt. Dipshit. And what answers are found here? Only disgust and loathing.
Here there is only the hatred of self preservation.
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HIGH STREET, PROJECTOR WALL.
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95BFM, QUOTE.
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THE FIX, COVER.
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NIGHTLINE, INTERVIEW.
(CLICK ON IMAGE TO WATCH REPORT)
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WAIHEKE MARKETPLACE, INTERVIEW.
(CLICK ON IMAGE TO READ ARTICAL)
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LOVESICK. PART 1. OF 2.
JANE MY DEVIL
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LOVESICK. 2. OF 2.
I LOVE JANE BUT I HATE MYSELF SO MUCH MORE.
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FIX THIS.
IT'S NOT ALRIGHT. BUT EVERYTHING'S FINE. NO BETTER.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 1.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 2.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 3.
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TOTEMFUCK.
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BELIEVE THE LIES.
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WHO KNOWS BETTER???
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PENANCE.
SEE.
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THE TREE OF LIES.
ALIVE AND WELL.
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THIS IS MY LOVE.
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SODOMY. 1.
I HATE YOUR SEX.
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SODOMY. 1. (DETAIL)
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THESE IMPORTANT THINGS.
THE MEANING I PUT ON IT. WHAT IT MEANS TO ME. TO ME.
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SODOMY. 2.
WHAT IS SHE BUT A FUCKING HOLE.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 4.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 5.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 6.
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TASTES LIKE SEMEN.
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REFLECTION.
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IT'S GOOD FOR YOU.
SHUT UP AND TAKE IT.
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DOG EAT DOG BEGET DOG.
FUCK YOU ALL.
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DEMANDING BITCH.
I FUCKING HATE YOU!
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DO UNTO OTHERS.
THEY'RE GAGGING FOR IT.
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SKIN FAITH. 1.
CHRISTINA.
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SKIN FAITH. 2.
KIM.
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SKIN FAITH. 3.
MILLA.
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SKIN FAITH. 3. (DETAIL)
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SKIN FAITH. 4.
LORA.
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SKIN FAITH. 5.
ELIZABETH.
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FOOLMOON.
ODE TO STRIPPERS.
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GIRL WITH HAMMER IN MOUTH.
FUCKING SLUT.
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OBSESS.
WHAT ELSE IS THERE???
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I WON'T STOP.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 7.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 8.
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MEAT ON A STICK. 9.
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HOPE.
JUPITER'S BASTARD.
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BAIT.
KIM LAERY. YEAH - TRUST THIS.
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PANDORA'S MEAT.
LEAVE IT BEHIND.
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THE ARTIST
AUCKLAND, JUNE 2005
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A BIAS RETROSPECTIVE.
AND ALL
MY ART, ALL MY THINKING HAS SOLVED NOTHING - WORTHLESS IDIOT. HATE MYSELF.
BUT NO. I REFUSE TO TAKE THE BLAME. THOSE FAGGOTS AND ALL THEIR BULLSHIT ARE
LESS THAN I.
CONTEMPT AND DISGUST IS MY RESPONSE TO THEIR MEAT.
HOW BIG WOULD THEIR MOUTHS BE – WITHOUT ALL THEIR CASH FROM SUCKING
SO MUCH COCK.
AND THE HUMBLE SAINT IS A FUCKING LIAR.
GOD KNOWS
HOW MUCH I LAUGH AT THE DEATH AND SUFFERING OF THEIR CHILDREN.
GOD KNOWS WE HATE EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.
GOD KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT, NOT SOME DIPSHIT, ART SCHOOL, THEORIZING
WANKER.
I EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIMENT, WHILE PUSSY MOTHERFUCKERS BITCH ABOUT THE DYNAMIC
STATE OF THEIR OWN ALL ENCOMPASSING ARSEHOLES.
I REPENT NOTHING.
AND FUCK YOU ALL!!!
ALL MY
MEANING = $0.00 TO THEM, WHILE THEY EQUAL DISEASED MEAT.
BUT BEFORE I FUCKING ROT COMPLETELY– I WILL FUCK MY ENEMY AND FULFIL
MY ART.
DESECRATE HER.
SLIT
HER FUCKING THROAT. GUT HER ALIVE. SMASH HER TEETH IN WITH MY BASEBALL BAT.
BRAKE EVERY BONE IN HER SHIT BODY. SKIN HER FACE. STAB HER BACK TEN THOUSAND
TIMES.
FUCK YOU SLUT. FUCK YOU COMPLACENT CYNICS. FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOUTH FULL OF
PUKE.
FUCK YOU PIGS – CONVICTIONLESS AS YOUR UGLY IDIOT TRENDS – MINDLESS.
FUCK YOU RESPECTLESS ANIMALS EATING YOUR OWN SHIT. FAT ON YOUR MOTHER'S BLISTERED
TIT.
MIDDLE CLASS COWARDS PREACHING A BEAUTY THAT DOES NOT EXIST. JUDGE ME STUPID.
FEEL NO PAIN OF THE PUS IN YOUR SWOLLEN RETARDED SKULLS. SPAWNING MORE OF
THE SAME.
THE HIDEOUS MASSES THAT MAKE SLAVE LABOUR NECESSARY. “HUMAN RIGHTS”
IS JUST A CATCH PHRASE, MOTHERFUCKER.
AND ALL THIS HATE IS JUST TEMPORARY AND I WILL NOT LAST – NOT AGAINST
THE MOB.
SO YES
– I WILL FUCK YOUR PRECIOUS CHILDREN.
AND CUT A HOLE RIGHT THROUGH YOUR WORTHLESS VALUES.
FUCKING
MORALS NO ONE HEEDS. NICE IDEAS FOR AN IMPOTENT FATHER.
INFLUENCE, SUGGESTION – I WILL MAIM AND BUTCHER AND TAKE MY TROPHIES.
AND I AM THE FRIGHTENED BOY – AS I AM THE KNIFE IN YOUR THROAT.
FREEDOM = HELL
AFTER ALL THIS FUCKING MESS – I AM FUMING!!!
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THE ARTIST
AUCKLAND, JUNE 2005
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