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    Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art

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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    Oh, I so want to go do the rape tunnel. The uncomfortable silence when he realizes that someone who could just beat him silly (I surely wouldn't have to actually do it) just crawled out would, truly, be art.

    That said, wouldn't entering the rape tunnel confer some kind of consent, thus making it not a rape tunnel?
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    Image of Thomas Paladino Thomas Paladino
    09/30/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: Ahhh... and there you have the very essence of this 'art'... well done!
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    Image of JohnnytheFuture JohnnytheFuture
    10/11/09

    @The Curse of Millhaven: It's not rape, if it's done so willingly.
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    Image of gawkimo gawkimo
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    Same thing could be done with a Restoril in a glass of scotch. Why take the long route?
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    Image of Z und Vielpunkt's chick Z und Vielpunkt's chick
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    My guess is that the hoaxsters are law professors creating a maddening hypothetical for their students about rape and consent.
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    The links indicate that the account has been suspended, hopefully like Whitehurst himself.

    Over a vat of battery acid. Or Real Housewives of New Jersey. Or Julia Allison.
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    Maybe this is a "piece" about blogging and its hostility and ennui toward even the most elementary efforts at fact checking.
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    Image of Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    Would throwing a tear gas canister in the tunnel be considered art?
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    Image of ambitious ambitious
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    This is the work. All of the writing about this project. I would put money on it.

    I'm sick of this trend of "The art is the reaction to the fake art!" but do not see it ending soon.
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    Edited by ambitious at 09/29/09 9:59 AM ambitious was starred ambitious was unstarred
    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    Hoax City. Or perhaps Parody Town. BTW, he shows at the William Struck Jr Museum. William Struck Jr co-wrote Elements of Style.
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    Image of power_stroke power_stroke
    09/29/09

    @Carol Gardens: Wouldn't that be Strunk?
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    Image of Carol Gardens Carol Gardens
    09/29/09

    @power_stroke: Sorry, Strunk in both cases.
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    09/29/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    I'm busy working on my next installation piece, my Castrate Richard Whitehurst Tunnel. Richard, if you're reading this, maybe you'd like to come by and experience it.
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    09/28/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    Awwwwww you guys killed the website!
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    Image of The Dewd The Dewd
    09/28/09

    @ms_priestypants: THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!
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    Image of Awesome X Awesome X
    09/28/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    The refers to Tucker Max pieces are priceless.
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    Image of ThePantaloon.com ThePantaloon.com
    09/28/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    That exhibit's not doing nearly as well as the "Blowjob Tunnel" in the Hell's Kitchen Youth Hostel. That's what I heard anyway.
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    09/28/09

    @ThePantaloon.com: I hear there is one in Chelsea too.... franchise?
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/28/09

    @momof3wildkids:
    What if somebody just wants a "latte"?
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    09/28/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    And here I thought rape tunnel was just one of those disgusting euphemisms used by ugly teenage boys.

    The problem is calling it a "rape tunnel" and stating the intention to rape. If you enter the experience knowing that rape is a possibility, then it has no significant parallel to life experiences that lead to rape, because the victim does not enter an experience or relationship with the anticipation of being raped. If it were somehow possible to surprise the person entering the tunnel with an attempted rape, then the project would create a far closer experiential analogue to rape. But it would be impossible to achieve such an experiential state without breaking the law and endangering the safety of everyone involved. So, in the end, the project is intellectually sloppy—a non-committal failure, as FeralCat explains below.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    09/28/09

    @iplaudius: I am not sure that is entirely true--certainly people have had the experience that they are in a situation where they anticipate rape (or some other form of harm) simply by straying into a lonely or decrepit urban area.

    I have gone to neighborhoods in New York and elsewhere where I felt extremely unsafe. Of course the only time I was mugged was at the Frick Collection, but that's a whole other story.
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    09/28/09

    @RollsRoyceRevenge: You are right. I guess I was hoping for something that would be more than just an analogy for "choosing to take a walk on the wrong side of the tracks" or what have you. If I were going to make a work of art like this, I would want it to conjure the ambivalence and confusion of the situation in which the rapist leverages his relationship with the victim to make possible the very premise of rape. Such a scenario would also, I think, build productively on the complexity of the relationship of artist and viewer.
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    Image of sparklyharempants sparklyharempants
    09/29/09

    @iplaudius: Devil's advocate: That's kind of assuming that this is the only situation in which rape occurs, but I see your point.

    I still think this guy's a jackass. He reminds me of an 'artist' from Toronto whose game was to make people uncomfortable. I didn't know this before he came into my house and on my rugs with his shoes on. When asked to take them off, he mentioned that his feet were nasty and walked directly into my bathroom. He proceeded to sit on the edge of my tub, stick his legs in there and wash his feet with my Aveeno face scrub!

    I still don't know if this was part of his 'art' or whether he was just a total douchebag. Probably both.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    09/28/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    He bears a resemblance to a certain PR guru whose agency could also be referred to as a "rape tunnel."
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    Image of heartbreakturnip heartbreakturnip
    09/28/09

    In reply to Enter the Rape Tunnel, For Art
    I wrote several things here, trying to be funny, and I just can't do it. I would like a "Bring-Me-A-Sandwich" Tunnel, though.
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    Edited by heartbreakturnip at 09/28/09 7:44 PM heartbreakturnip was starred heartbreakturnip was unstarred
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