Cow Parade
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And God knows the people that clean our streets etc are the real people of this country – keeping things running, not Dail Commitees and IAPs – a cleaned street does more for the city than any blueprints and masterplans, and in a fraction of the time. And someone unfortunatly has to do it.
Which is what I originally meant, its a pity more smug middle class offenders arn’t made clean up after themselves in court rulings – snobs like me.now i don’t want anyone to think i am condoning the damage to the cows, but isn’t there something lame about the cowparade, it’s corporate, it’s harmless, it’s meaningless and it’s kind of hollow. does this affect the way the cows were treated?
I dont think the people who did the damage were critics – I couldn’t see Brian Sewell kicking the shite out of a fiberglass cow.
I’ve lived in this city for 7 years and I can tell you for sure that 99% of the litter on the streets is discarded by an army of bitter knackers and junkies. Sure, comparatively speaking they’ve been dealt a “hard hand” but compared to the suffereings of most of the world they have it so f**king easy. I don’t know what it is about Dubliners, but they seem to believe they are owed a living, are better than everybody else and they can fuckin throw their sweetie wrappers wherever they fancy. They are the most conformist, ignorant and unpleasant people ever to be shat out by the Lord and why oh why can’t we get them the f**k out of the city under the carpet like most cities.
All you tinker apologists can just shut up; come the revolution you’ll be the first against the wall.
Sure the answer was not to remove the cows but to remove the morons whose only joy in life it is to make other people’s life a misery.
there’s still a few cows on the northside quays; you know by the IFSC and that.
One of them is really lame, just a load of handprints. I guess this would be the “community” effort.Its true, the campsire cows are undamaged, this sort of contradicts my claim that public art people respect is less likely to be damaged, my evidence, in my own mind, was that people seem to like the famine memorial and it seems to escape vandalism, on the otherhand, as pointed out, the cows in the same area seem to be fine too. In short, my thesis is unsupported by evidence.
I still think cowparade is kind of crappy.
There isn’t any copper-face-jack’s type place down the campshire for people to get shitfaced and kick the crap out of a fiberglass cow though either. I think the cows were herded down there for their own safety.
I think it’s very interesting that the cows that are still on public display are as you’ve mentioned, mostly down the docks. They wern’t moved to there though, whatever’s there was there at the start.
There were comments in the papers that suggested that the “deprived” residents of the innercity had vandalised the public art that they were to ignorant to appreciate.
As it turns out any cow unfortunate enough to be within areas that draw crowds from the suburbs in the evenings is now gone and all that’s left is the cows in the docklands that are surrounded by the inner city locals.
Speaking of which – well done to Sherrif Street After-school project (and Gavin Friday) and the “no cow”. That would be a “community effort” GoodFella!
I don’t know who did the handprint cow, but I heard there was a similarly painted one you could participate in at the Special Olympics in RDS. I think the one at campshires is more subdued colouring though.
Its not just in Dublin you know
Taken From MediaGuardian.co.uk diary:
Cow kidnap case solved
The Associated Newspapers cow (which one?) has returned safely to the fold. Mootro, a former star of charitable public art event the international cow parade, went missing from her concrete plinth outside the Edinburgh Fringe Festival box office on the Royal Mile last weekend, and was last spotted being carried down Leith Walk in the wee small hours. Happily, following an appeal in free newspaper Metro, she was found at a special needs school, where it appeared she had been tossed over the wall by her abductors, slightly damaged but otherwise fine. The promised reward of £250 will go to the school. A heart-warming end to the tale.Trace:
I wouldnt publicise the fact that theres an art piece outside Patrick Guilbauds….Conrad Gallagher might get ideasThere are a few on the south side of the Green, one of which is used as a container for an ice-cream vendor. I wonder what beef ice-cream tastes like?
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