{"id":3302,"date":"2005-12-29T19:09:11","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/12\/29\/3302.html"},"modified":"2005-12-29T19:09:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-30T03:09:11","slug":"austrian-political-porn-billbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/12\/29\/austrian-political-porn-billbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Austrian political &#8220;porn&#8221; billboards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <cite>Times Online<\/cite> reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,13509-1963082,00.html\">the Austrian government is sponsoring an art project featuring sexually explicit political posters<\/a>: specifically, there's a to-do over a poster showing <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.iginonline.com\/?p=478\">actors wearing masks of Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Chirac having sex together<\/a> (not work-safe).  Best comment in that blog: \"Wow! George Bush has a pretty nice body.\"<\/p>\n<p>The other poster mentioned in that <cite>Times<\/cite> article is by an artist named Tanja Ostojic, apparently part of her political art project titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magazynsztuki.home.pl\/online_2005\/prolog_msz\/tanja_ostojic\/\">Looking for a Man with EU Passport<\/a>.  The image that's causing the kerfuffle shows <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveart.dk\/luft_tanja.htm\">a woman wearing blue underwear with the EU stars over her crotch<\/a> (probably not work-safe).<\/p>\n<p>Here's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindart.org\/web_all\/confrontations\/confrontations4.htm\">another image from that Ostojic project<\/a> (not work-safe), though I don't think this one's part of the Austrian government-sponsored set; it's an interestingly disturbing mix of male and female.<\/p>\n<p>(Update: Damn, BoingBoing beat me to it.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/12\/29\/presidential_pornopr.html\">their entry<\/a> for a little more info, including an update noting that the offending images are no longer displayed on the billboards.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Online reports that the Austrian government is sponsoring an art project featuring sexually explicit political posters: specifically, there&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}