Slog - Comments on Bodies, Bodies Everywhere http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere I don't find the Bodies exhibition as offensive as some. Yes, like many people I have qualms about where the bodies in Bodies came from, but I'm not chaining myself to the doors. (Hey, did they ever find that liver or kidney that got stolen?) But I have to say that I'm getting a little tired of seeing skinned, flayed, dismembered, glassy-eyed corpses everywhere I look--yes, even our own pages. I'm starting to feel a bit traumatized.... Copyright 2008 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:01:57 -0800 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:20:53 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Fnarf If only Jeffrey Dahmer was alive to see this. He'd be thrilled!

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601803 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601803 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:11:27 -0800 Comment by Morgan I wonder if the Kidney that was stolen from the Bodies Exhibit was a political statement; we've been hearing for years about how organs are sold from the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners. Since rumor has it that the bodies used in the Exhibit were executed Chinese prisoners - and ironically, the reward of $10,000 is about the same as the price of a kidney on the black market, it's possible that the theif was trying to make a point about the commidification of human remains. Or maybe it's too subtle to be clever.

]]> Morgan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601894 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601894 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:40:35 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley I just can't get over the body-origins issue as easily as you, Dan. And it is not an issue of chaining oneself to a door or not. I guess I just don't want to support an exhibit that has not made fully clear that they are not exhibiting executed political prisoners. I mean, if you are going to exhibit bodies this way that is the least we should expect, isn't it - that the bodies' former owners gave permission?

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601916 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601916 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:51:57 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley Post script: Not to mention the the ads. I agree with you there, there is just something distasteful. We had the same display on the tourist buses in NYC last fall, and I am glad the circus show has moved to the next town.

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601923 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601923 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:53:30 -0800 Comment by Mark Mitchell As Dina Martina pointed out in her Christmas show, it was very thoughtful of the producers to put the Bodies Exhibit right next door to the Cheesecake Factory...

]]> Mark Mitchell http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601924 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c601924 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:54:06 -0800 Comment by golob I found about half of the exhibit to be ghastly and about half utterly fascinating. Some of the more technical dissections were spectacular, such as an entire nerve plexus or the entire vasculature of the heart.

The cheesy yoga girl and other "shocking" poses were ghastly, particularly given political prisoners most likely gave their lives for this show.

]]> golob http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602005 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602005 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:30:56 -0800 Comment by ChillyMama Read the blurb, kids. The bodies are donated by rational thinking people (ok, supposedly rational thinking) who basically donate themselves to science.

When this exhibit was in Denver I visited it several times. I found it fascinating and incredible, not at all disgusting. Mind you, I don't live IN Denver, so I didn't have to drive down the street looking at flayed bodies on the backs of buses...

]]> ChillyMama http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602033 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:50:13 -0800 Comment by me ChillyMama, Denver had "Body Worlds", which is a different exhibit and does have informed consent from all of its exhibited donors.

"Bodies... The Exhibition", on display in Seattle, has not obtained for any of the bodies used (all of which are from China). They say that the bodies were unclaimed or unidentified, from various sources. Some people think that the bodies are those of political prisoners, such as Falun Gong members.

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602058 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602058 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:04:29 -0800 Comment by me 2nd paragraph should say "has not obtained *consent* for any of the bodies used".

]]> me http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602061 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602061 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:05:55 -0800 Comment by catnextdoor Thanks #8,

Yes Body Worlds was the first to display these preserved bodies, Bodies is a knock-off. In interviews mostly on radio the Bodies people stutter when asked where their subjects come from. Creepy.

]]> catnextdoor http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602189 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602189 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:45:44 -0800 Comment by BC Other than the dubious origin of the corpses, what really creeps me out about "Bodies... The Exhibition" is the eyebrows. Why did the preservers feel compelled to chop the eyebrows out of the flayed hides of these people and tack them onto the finished product? It just looks bizarre.

]]> BC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602353 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602353 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:28:32 -0800 Comment by agreed i totally agree. crikes, they are even in the new bond movie, casino royal, with a slightly different exhibit name....

]]> agreed http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602540 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602540 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:51:50 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi Body Worlds is the exhibit used in Casino Royale, not Bodies: The Exhibition.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602712 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602712 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:41:25 -0800 Comment by ChillyMama Me @ 8:
Thanks for setting me right! If indeed it is the case that this exhibition is using corpses of people who did not give their consent, then my reaction is, "Oh. My. God." That's disgusting and disgraceful!

]]> ChillyMama http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602862 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c602862 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:15:01 -0800 Comment by genevieve I'm defintiely ready for this exhibit to go away. I am not offended by it, but I'm tired of being accosted by the full color marketing

]]> genevieve http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c603016 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/bodies_bodies_everywhere#c603016 City Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:20:53 -0800