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“While many artists and critics maintain that the question of whether this use of animals is abuse or not is difficult to answer definitively, it is hardly debatable that the employment of animals (beings incapable of consenting to spending days, weeks, or merely hours, confined to, and on display in, galleries or museums – or, in the case of Riley’s piece, performing tricks over the East River) is exploitative, reflecting a form of domination that does not simply regard living animals as material so much as it deforms animals into material (into things that legendary artist Richard Serra described, in the statement accompanying his 1966 work ‘Live-Animal Habitat,’ as comparable to objects such as sticks, stones, and paint).”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/05/16/art-world-more-like-seaworld-the-use-of-live-animals-as-objects-of-art/