Naked Against Bullfights in Bilbao
If you’re planning on staging a protest against bullfighting, you’ll want to gather a group of your closest hundred friends, take off your clothes, paint some of you black and some of you red, drop, and form the shape of a bull. At least that’s how you’d do it in Bilbao. Anti-bullfighting campaigners chose the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao to protest the annual celebration of the matador in the Basque city in northern Spain.
One hundred activists in their skivvies played dead in the form of a giant bull; their nearly naked bodies painted black and red. A spokesperson for the Animal rights group, Anima Naturalis, stated: “We believe that, after the Catalan parliament’s decision last month to ban bullfighting in the region of Catalonia, communities like the Basque Region could also do it. Basque society is becoming more sensitive, rejecting animal mistreatment.” (Clearly a call for stripping and applying body paint…) The protest generated strong support locally. One resident (with a roving eye) stated: “We’re impressed with how well this protest has been done.”
Giant Penis Protest Hits St. Petersburg
Why stage a sit-in when you can paint a giant penis in protest? A gigantic cock was recently painted on the Liteiny Bridge in St. Petersburg by the radical art collective known as Voina (which means ‘war’). The huge phallus was created in protest of security measures planned for the International Economic Forum, an event designed to identify and deliberate key challenges that face emerging markets and the world.
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) is Russia’s main domestic security agency; successor to the KGB. Now, when the bridge is raised, the erect penis stands in all it’s glory right next to FSB headquarters. Measuring 220 ft long and almost 90 feet wide (insert jealousy here), the big dick rises and shines whenever the bridge is raised to allow ships to pass underneath it. Only one of the artists has been fined for the penis so far, which was still visible as of yesterday.
