Aspen Art Museum's Exhibit of Tortoises Toting iPads Agitates Protestors
- August 06, 2014 22:37
Aspen Art Museum officials are being questioned about a plan to place iPads on live tortoises during an art exhibition this weekend. The tortoises would be used in the 24-hour public opening of the new art museum on Saturday as part of an exhibition conceived by artist Cai Guo-Qiang.
The debut show on the rooftop sculpture garden is set to feature desert tortoises wandering around the space with iPads attached to their shells with specially designed mounts. The iPads will be showing footage of abandoned ghost-town cabins from around the valley, images that were previously recorded with the devices while they were attached to the tortoises’ shells, reports the Aspen Daily News.
A Change.org petition was generated to stop the tortoise show which protesters liken to animal abuse.
The Aspen Art Museum's 33,000-square-foot Shigeru Ban-designed building is set to open to the public on Saturday with a number of other inaugural exhibitions, including Yves Klein and David Hammons, an unprecedented coupling of two of the most significant artists of our time.
