Pornographic Political Protest: Bush Chirac and the Queen
The U.S. Press covered this story without photos here and here:
Spoof posters depicting Britain's Queen Elizabeth having sex with the U.S. and French presidents that are displayed across Vienna are causing embarrassment just days ahead of Austria's taking over the EU presidency.
Part of a series called "euroPART" that features art created by artists from all 25 member countries of the European Union, the posters were meant to "reflect on the different social, historical and political developments in Europe," said art project 25peaces, which commissioned the posters.
Apparently, the Austrian equivalent of the United States Endowment for the Arts funded these:
The entire series is available here as a torrent download at CommonBits.
You can talk about the story on CommonTimes here.
coo...l.
Posted by: preciouse | Aug 04, 2008 at 06:50 PM