For all of you girls! SUICIDE-BOMBER BARBIE!!!!!

[anwserman]

http://www.lucky-s-designs.com/PSO/barbie.jpg

SUICIDE BOMBER BARBIE
London institute of contemporary arts august 2002

Simon Tyszko’s Suicide Bomber Barbie conflates Western commodification with Palestinian desperation. Religious and capitalist dogmas struggle within Barbie's idealised form, in an artwork of potent incongruity. It is a work whose political stridency is tempered by a well placed humour.

Tyszko’s work might be described as being in the tradition of the long lost art of agitprop. 'Capitalism defeats dissent and revolution' Tyszko says, 'not through direct confrontation, but through commodification.It sells back at a profit the signs, styles and symbols of revolution.'

By his appropriation of a consumerist icon, the artist creates an emphatic subversion of this process, the artist seeking to help create the conditions of political change.
A recent interview with a nine year old Palestinian girl had her saying she had wanted to be a doctor, but could now no longer study or sleep at night, and now only wanted to be a martyr. Tyszko says of her that 'she has effectively bought the notion of suicide bombing as a lifestyle choice – it has become aspirational, an off the shelf peer led option.'

Suicide Bomber Barbie draws attention to certain kinds of moral, emotional, and political equivalence, which uncomfortably exist within the nationalistic and political systems that contain them. That these systems are dysfunctional, goes without saying.

NOTE: I had to upload the image to my website to remove a URL in the image.

Isn't that... kinda sad though? Suicide-bomber Barbie? http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif

[FOAtHeart]

I seriously hope this is a joke. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_nono.gif

[anwserman]

On 2004-04-03 23:39, FOAtHeart wrote:
I seriously hope this is a joke. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_nono.gif



If this was a joke, it would be in FKL. http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_frown.gif
Isn't it... just wrong?

[Enyalis_Cho]

That's hysterical in a sick and twisted kinda way.

[Sord]

i find it kind of odd... just hope lolli doesn't bust in and ramble on about performance art, cause i always have a knack to get into what is "wrong and right" weather it's about art or wars or whatever when i can avoid them, and ones with lolli have been the longest lasting. She just has to be a part of a debate team. And lolli, if your reading this, you migh as well take it as a complement to your debate skillz.

[opaopajr]

artistically engaging and morbidly amusing at the same time!

it offends while eliciting pity in the explanation a wonderful juxtaposition. it leaves the viewer in a confused state, challenging their staid, and complicit, life and it's relationship to a very horrific real-world issue by defiling sacrosanct pop culture icons.

yes, yes, I like it. A+

i laughed, i cried, i cursed, and finally left drained - wonderful!

[FOAtHeart]

george bush will have a blast with this http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Pancake]

It's so true. But why is it white? Why not a brown Barbie with a veil?

[Cheep]

I cut all the hair off of my barbie doll and sanji beat the arm off of one http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif We also love beating their heads off!

[goku4ever]

i wonder if theyll release a terrorist ken to go wiv it. They should release it wiv a hole in the ground

[Ness]

This will probably piss people of but...

THAT THING IS AWESOME, I WANT ONE!!!!!

[SpikeOtacon]

On 2004-04-04 06:56, Ness wrote:

THAT THING IS AWESOME, I WANT ONE!!!!!

[Gnarled_rose]

AH, political satire...is there nothing they can't do?

Oh, wait. That's doughnuts....So what does political satire do? I guess anything doughnuts can't......

Anyway, I liked it. "Now she only wants to be a martyr" HILARIOUS! http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_lol.gif (even if it's true.) It's at this point guys like me stand up and boldly announce....I'm wearing boxers with hearts on them!!! Oh, I mean....Run away!!!!!

[ERS]

On 2004-04-04 07:03, SpikeOtacon wrote:


On 2004-04-04 06:56, Ness wrote:

THAT THING IS AWESOME, I WANT ONE!!!!!

[Zzzzzz]

If anwserman where to take out the bottom paragraph, I would believe that Barbie is tired of dressing up and wearing that stupid smile everyday, and decide to end it all with an explosion so that Ken would never get her stuff. If the barbie can, explode(and if it won't I'll make it), and is based on anwserman's paragraph, then I only have a few words to say instead:


On 2004-04-04 10:08, ERS wrote:


On 2004-04-04 07:03, SpikeOtacon wrote:


On 2004-04-04 06:56, Ness wrote:

THAT THING IS AWESOME, I WANT ONE!!!!!







http://www.pso-world.com/psoworld/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_wacko.gif

[Sord]

Matel canceled the Ken series, read it in the newspaper that our school forces us to read.

[Kuea]

thats just wrong

[anwserman]

On 2004-04-04 20:01, Gajeh wrote:
thats just wrong




Yeah, making people read is a shame, isn't?
Oh wait, you were talking about Ken... heh.

Well, its not like Ken was a big seller or anything. Barbie was the one people bought. Who really wanted Ken anyway?

[_Sinue_]

I'd buy it... but only if it really exploded.

[goku4ever]

I wouldnt buy ken.... honest.... *whistles innoncently*

[HUnewearl_Meira]

You know, if it wouldn't violate the forum rules, I would consider replying to this with my picture of Sorority Slut Barbie. One extreme versus the opposite, y'know.

[shifter]

On 2004-04-05 04:31, _Sinue_ wrote:
I'd buy it... but only if it really exploded.


me too. i would send one to one of my cousins thats really piss me of. the ultimate payback, since there all girls. "cool, what does this button do?", boom, no more annoying family members.
(of course, if you cant tell this is a joke, then your sorry).

[BlackRose]

On 2004-04-04 06:56, Ness wrote:
This will probably piss people of but...

THAT THING IS AWESOME, I WANT ONE!!!!!



now now ness, no flamebaiting!!!!!

*is pissed off because ness wants one*




I think it's cool. And it's not a problem that it doesn't explode on it's own... I'm sure that could be arranged. *rubs hands deviously*

[Ness]

On 2004-04-06 01:47, BlackRose wrote:


On 2004-04-04 06:56, Ness wrote:
This will probably piss people of but...

THAT THING IS AWESOME, I WANT ONE!!!!!



now now ness, no flamebaiting!!!!!

*is pissed off because ness wants one*




I think it's cool. And it's not a problem that it doesn't explode on it's own... I'm sure that could be arranged. *rubs hands deviously*



Oh my God, it's Blackrose!

[PurplePower1]

what are kids going to do with this, what are their little minds going to perceive. won't be good.

[BogusKun]

haha BlackRose is back... whaddya know... and this time, in the middle of purchasing Dolls? LOL