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Viral ‘baby-eating’ art project gets slammed by netizens

2017-03-02 2 Dailymotion

JAKARTA, INDONESIA — Hashtag “makan mayit” — which means “eat corpse” — is what Indonesian artist Natasya Gabriella Tontey calls her latest project, a strange work that has drawn condemnation from government ministers and the public. <br /> <br />The exhibition opened on Feb. 25 in a restaurant in South Jakarta. Tickets to the event, in which patrons dine on food resembling brains and dead babies, will set you back around $40. <br /> <br />The artwork has been judged by netizens to have crossed a line. <br /> <br />Viral photos even show one dessert — a red blob of pudding — looking a little too much like a fetus. Natasya’s point, apparently, is to invite patrons to experience the sensation of eating a baby. <br /> <br />In an interview, she said her art project is part of a social experiment. She wants to see the public’s reaction to cannibalism. <br /> <br />Netizens, however, were overwhelmingly disgusted by the idea and have called Natasya a psychopath. She responded that psychopathy and cannibalism have long been a part of being human. Take that, trolls!

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