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And Finally
Morrissey wants Hirst’s head in a bag
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 17 March 2010
Morrissey has suggested that Damien Hirst’s head should be kept in a bag as punishment for his use of dead animals in his art. I’m not sure if his head would still be attached to his shoulders or not, Morrissey did not say. He needs to be clearer about these things, if we’re going to get anything done.
The former Smiths frontman made the comment while interviewing artist Linder Sterling, the subject of the band’s song ‘Cemetery Gates’, for Interview Magazine. He asked Sterling: “I dislike the ‘use’ of animals in art, such as in the work of Damien Hirst. But in your latest performance piece, ‘Your Actions Are My Dreams’, you have a woman serenely sitting atop a calmly satisfied horse, which is, of course, alive and healthy. Do you agree that Hirst’s head should be kept in a bag for the way he’s utilised – and sold – dead animals?”
Sterling responded: “Dead butterflies, cows, horses, humans, sheep and sharks – it reads like the inventory of a funerary Noah. How many halved calves suspended in formaldehyde does the world need? To my way of thinking, none”.
A halved calf suspended in gravy, though. That’s a different matter.
