Exploding Cow Drop

[Jeremy Osner]

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> http://de.news.yahoo.com/010720/12/1s9st.html
"The artist/provocateur Wolfgang Flatz has done it again. His newest
performance, "Flesh", has caused national controversy. On Thursday evening he
let drop a dead cow from 40 m. height into an excavation in the Prenzlauer Berg
section of Berlin. The cadaver, which had been interlarded with fireworks,
exploded like a mushroom cloud (?) on impact. The 48-year-old performance artist
sought to bring into question the "relationship between man and his body and the
food chain" with this spectacle."

> http://de.news.yahoo.com/010719/12/1s33s.html
The 48-year-old Austrian-born Flatz reached has already stirred up sensation
with several provocative actions. For example, in a synagogue he had himself, as
a living bell-ringer, struck repeatedly against a steel plate until he was
unconscious; and he had darts thrown at him. His dog comes to the name "Hitler".