9.15.2008

Sleep with the . . . wait, what?

A man on Death Row in Texas says he wants to become fish food.

Gene Hathom, a convicted triple murderer, is still awaiting results of his various appeals, but if they fail, he wants his executed corpse turned over to an artist who will then freeze it and chop it into fish food.

The idea, says artist Marco Evaristti, is that people will be asked to feed the bits to an aquarium full of goldfish as part of a performance-art protest against capital punishment, which he considers "vulgar and primitive."

Evaristti is the same artist who made headlines in 2000 with an exhibit of goldfish swimming in electric blenders. Gallery visitors were invited to push a button and make fish soup. Authorities in Copenhagen made him take down that installation.

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