In line for seconds?
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
Arby's!
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
A: Newark
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:19 (twelve years ago) link
would not want to be on Facebook.com.nu this afternoon.
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
What kind of tea does one serve with African female genital mutilation cake? Malarial tea?
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
This is After getting my vagaga mutilated by the minister of culture, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth. Before cutting me up she whispered ‘Your life will be better after this’ in my ear.'
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
should this go before or after apaches on my ballot?
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
vagaga
rama rama-ma
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
RE: The cake.
It looks a LOT worse as a thumbnail. In higher res, it actually looks like a really well-made sculpture. If you changed everyone in the picture to frowning it would be 1000x easier to swallow.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
that's what she screamed
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo126/theybf/June%2009/27d69cd7.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Before cutting me up she whispered ‘Your life will be better after this’ in my ear.'
maybe it's funnier in swedish
― goole, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
i wanna make a genital mutilation hologram joke but it's not working so i'm posting this instead because i want to...
...have my cake and eat it too.
― Fook Lee (Matt P), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh i see pplains was already on that trail
― Fook Lee (Matt P), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
whenever racist cakes call, i'm already there, my friend.
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
No red velvet, no credibility.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
Will this guy become an art star or a pariah?
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:38 (twelve years ago) link
I bet he's a hoot when he works behind the counter at Luby's!
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
"You didn't get much.""I was going to add some peach cobbler, but the croutons started screaming at me."
― pplains, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
I'm surprised that this thing hasn't made it to cakewrecks.com yet. Surely it must.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
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― ♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
If cakes could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them up? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
― Godzilla vs. Rodan Rodannadanna (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
fuckin cakes, always with the screaming
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/3023966902_515aa0d9a9.jpg
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
^me itt today
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
And they have had a bomb threat now.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bomb-threat-museum-sweden-caught-racist-cake-scandal-cake-depicted-naked-african-woman-featured-actress-blackface-article-1.1063075
(How's that for a URL, SEO Marketers?)
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:24 (twelve years ago) link
i bet this artist is thrilled
― goole, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 12:53 (twelve years ago) link
Here's some interesting background about the cake-troversy:http://africasacountry.com/2012/04/18/swedish-cake/
― sockless in moccasins (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr7ZLYPtiRs
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
Has anyone actually interviewed the artist about it?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
xp hahahaha yes that's what i was thinking of!
― Nhex, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.racialicious.com/2012/04/18/voices-makode-aj-linde-and-that-cake/
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
The reaction of the assembled crowd, though, is perhaps more disturbing. They don’t seem to understand that this isn’t supposed to be “Ha-ha”-funny, and if observers ascribe their glee to a detached, condescending form of racism, I’d be hard-pressed to disagree. Really, who knows what they were thinking? Who the eff laughs at that?- Tommy Christopher, Mediaite
yes I mean, who on Earth would laugh at an absurd screaming blackface cake, like how is that situation even fathomable
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
laughter can be a release of nervousness, based on an uncertainty how to react
― Aimless, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
Linde apparently posted Facebook responses to diff't questions about the cake; a youtube FAQ, so to say. This blog has compiled his videos:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2012/04/artist-who-created-racist-sexist.html#more
this was his response to those asking why he chose to tackle female genital mutilation; it seems a bit more incoherent than the other responses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO5ALkMzOKc&feature=player_embedded
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/524703_337071523023373_135799796483881_957463_646738037_n.jpg
so nervous...
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:39 (twelve years ago) link
I guess the only reasonable conclusion is that she thinks blackface & female circumcision are hilarious and was unaware that the public at large would react negatively to her racist worlview
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
much more likely that she isn't sensitive to blackface or female circumcision at all and just thought it was fun feeding cake to a colorfully dressed cake person
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
That is also a very reasonable conclusion
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
I suppose the optimal time to capture her nervousness on camera would be during the (possibly multiple) times she initially tried to cut the cake
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
leo stotch
It seems to me that the cake was a trick in what was really a piece of performance art. Show a (mostly) rich, white audience a disgusting, violent racial stereotype in a context where they think it's safe to accept it, and watch them gleefully participate in a very grotesque spectacle. The cake wasn't meant to be an actual statement against FGM, it was a prop Mr. Linde used to make a very dark point. Whether it's OK for a man living in Sweden to use that iconography to make that point is an open question, but I really don't think the cake was meant to be the art on display. The artwork was the group of white people cutting up the body of an African woman and eating it and laughing, while somehow still under the impression that they were making a statement against FGM. Like Reply
would like to think that this was the case, but...
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
but what?
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link
i think the minister was just showing she was happy to play along? "ah yes, ART, how subversive and delightful."
― goole, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
I want to know who got the first piece of cake
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
his statements do not indicate that he intended the piece as a "gotcha" stunt aimed at making liljeroth and the rest of the audience look bad, or that his use of FGM as a subject was as cynical as leo suggests
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
that to llb
And how high did they jump when they heard that scream.
She should've been more like
http://vidgolos.com/images/3_364354634645634_2.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
the minister of culture got the first piece
― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Liljeroth, in a statement, said she understands why people felt offended and scandalized by the images widely circulated in the Swedish media. The Guardian reports she admitted that the cake installation was rather provocative and bizarre but that she was invited to speak about artistic freedom and the right to offend. She said: "I was invited to speak at World Art Day about the freedom of art and its right to provoke. And then they wanted me to cut into the cake. I don't review art, but I can very well understand that this whole situation was misunderstood." According to Liljeroth, the confusion stemmed from the artist himself. She said: "He claims that it challenges a romanticized and exoticized view from the West about something that is really about violence and racism." She added that the idea behind the exhibition was that "Art needs to be provocative."
idk contenderizer I think jaymc's link is v interesting and is worth reading
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link