THE TORTURE GARDEN: GROUP SHOW INSPIRED BY OCTAVE MIRBEAU

PRESENTS

THE TORTURE GARDEN

(artist- kai teichert)

GROUP EXHIBITION 

INSPIRED BY THE  FETISHISTIC NOVEL

  BY OCTAVE MIRBEAU IN 1899.

~FEATURING ARTISTS~

DAVID CROCKER

ELAINE PARKS
KAI TEICHERT

VIELA VALENTIN

RICK CASTRO

NATHAN  HORNER

MACKENZIE FEDORUK
JOHN HALE

LIVE PERFORMANCE BY~
ALCHEMIO

OPENING RECEPTION

APRIL 16TH

7PM TILL 9PM

$5 COVER

(artist~ elaine parks)

 The Torture Garden 
 is a novel written by the French novelist Octave Mirbeau, published in 1899. groundbreaking and shocking to this day, Mirabeau created a dialog about fetish fantasies,  desires  & nightmares long before culture was ready to accept. perhaps we are still not ready? nevertheless curator Rick Castro explores mirabeau's ideas with the help of seven of his best artists. 

about antebellum hollywood~

now is it's 11th year antebellum hollywood is the only fetish art gallery in the world. 

owner rick castro curates art as fetish on a monthly basis.

antebellum is intended as a salon for presentation of original ideas and 21st century culture, with a full awareness of the past.

(artist~ mackenzie  fedoruk)

"Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Blood everywhere and, where there is most life, horrible tormentors who dig your flesh, saw your bones, and retract your skin with sinister, joyful faces. ~"The Torture Garden," Chapter 9

"Ah, yes! the Torture Garden! Passions, appetites, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering. What I saw today, and what I heard, is no more than a symbol to me of the entire earth. I have vainly sought a respite in quietude and repose in death, and I can find them nowhere. ~

"The Torture Garden," Chapter 9

(artist- david crocker)

ANTI-HOMELESS SPIKES

look what's been popping up in the streets of london and paris..

homeless spikes as deterrent to sleeping or sitting in parts of the city that wish to not deal with homelessness. completely medieval and barbaric.

why are people so cruel to humans, yet will go out of their way to rescue stray dogs?

THE BLOODY PIT OF HORROR

1965- starring mickey hargitay~ (jayne mansfield's ex~husband!)

VINTAGE S&M SCENE

CIRCA 1956

DARTH VADER FETISH

photo courtesy- Maria-Luiza Vilberg- moscow/antebellum corespondent

21ST CENTURY COUPLE?

j Jean~Paul Gaultier & Chris Brown... his new bitch???.....

CHANGES

photo courtesy- ole thomas- oslo/antebellum corespondent

DOG

GOD

MAN WILL NOT BITE DOG ANYMORE

A South Korean dog meat festival has been cancelled following growls of protest from animal rights activists.

The Korea Dog Farmers' Association had scheduled for Friday a festival aimed at promoting traditional dog meat consumption, said Ann Yong-Geun, an adviser to the association.

"We couldn't possibly go on with the plan due to endless phone calls of complaint... now there are few willing to rent us a place for the event," Ann, a professor of nutrition at Chung Cheong University, told AFP.

The association had said the festival, to be held in a traditional open-air market in the city of Seongnam just south of Seoul, would showcase various canine delicacies including barbecued dog, sausages and steamed paws.

The event at the market, well known for selling dogs for meat, would also have featured products such as cosmetics and spirits with canine ingredients.

Ann said the festival would have displayed video clips and pictures of farms raising dogs under sanitary conditions, contrary to public perceptions.

He said there are about 600 farms raising dogs for meat in South Korea, where their meat has long been eaten and dog soup, or Boshintang, is a summer delicacy.

But growing numbers of Koreans oppose the practice and consider it an international embarrassment.

The planned festival stirred fury from South Korean animal rights groups and many Internet users.

"This is making our country an international laughing stock, and making the whole world mistakenly believe that all South Koreans eat dogs," said Park So-Youn, head of Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth.

The group led online campaigns to force cancellation of the festival.
"Canines are the animals emotionally closest to humans. You can't just publicly celebrate killing and eating them," Park said.

posting courtesy- kate mcconn- ingelwood/antebellum corespondent

BONDAGE FOR TODAY

while having my morning tea in the relaxing warm sushine, i remember i forgot to post my MORNING BONDAGE...
here it is-

SCARY SCENES FROM MOVIES

i'm continuing on with my creepy/scary, "keister," weekend and present my fave hideous scenes from my fave films.

AUDITION
- 1999- Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike.


MISERY
-1990- She then breaks his ankles with a sledgehammer in an act of "hobbling".


SIGNS
-2002- the Brazilian birthday party scene.


LES DIABLOLIQUES
-1955- only five years after its release, Véra Clouzot died of a heart attack at age 46, her character in the film also having heart problems.