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A controversial new art installation has not been going down a bomb with German cops in Dresden.

‘Petra’ is a lifesize model of a female riot cop in full armour squatting down, trousers akimbo, relieving herself on the floor. The ‘piss de resistance’ is a yellowish pool of liquid puddling at her feet.

Police are extremely pissed off over the exhibition at the Dresden College of Art, claiming, “There is freedom of art - but this time it has gone too far.”

As ever in modern art, controversy breeds success and the young piss-artist concerned, Marcel Walldorf, has won a £1,000 prize and risen a couple of rungs up the bladder of notoriety.

You can easily browse the web for an image of the work, but we prefer looking at it (for the humerous website name and the ruthless German efficiency of the page marker) on... www.kunstknall.de/public/user/benutzer/view.php%3Fbid%3D634%26sortid%3D3%26complete%3D&usg=__6aPiwMQf6nSvlnljN0P4-ccm3v0=&h=742&w=1024&sz=462&hl=en&start=22&zoom=1&tbnid=G6AQ1tjFQoKQMM:&tbnh=138&tbnw=201&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmarcel%2BWalldorf%26um%3D1% - if you can’t be arsed to type all that in, just see it here instead:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 
 

The following comments have been left on this story by other SchNEWS readers...

Added on 19th January 2011 at 16:19 by James

I've already explained why it DOES matter what gender the cop is. Flatly stating that it doesn't matter in response is a crap, crap argument. Just imagine a man in full riot gear being shown having a piss. It wouldn't make him look stupid, just normal. To make it funny he'd have to be doing it onto some symbol of authority. In other words, the joke would be against authority, but not the person in the photo. This photo is made "funny" at the expense of the person being a woman, not so much at the expense of the person being a cop. Understanding state oppression but not gender oppression is what's actually idiotic and the sort of reason why expanding our movements is so difficult.


Added on 17th January 2011 at 23:55 by Barbarian

James, somnething tells me you are an idiot. Its just funny because it takes the piss out of cops, doesnt matter of whate gender.


Added on 16th January 2011 at 13:02 by wibs

You gotta take the piss out of authority. Banksy did it rather well with his Coldstream Guard doing it against a wall. Nothing tough about that art either.


Added on 16th January 2011 at 05:47 by James

Something tells me this wouldn't seem so funny if it was a male cop. This cop only looks weak because she's a woman. A man pissing is all tough and manly because it's a er, pissing contest.


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