SLAUGHTERHOUSE '89
Coe, Sue
Slaughterhouse 89 Sue Coe, witness to a concealed industry EDITOR'S NOTE: The graphics on these pages are part of a continuing five-year effort by artist Sue Coe to record the workings of the...
...Slaughterhouse 89 Sue Coe, witness to a concealed industry EDITOR'S NOTE: The graphics on these pages are part of a continuing five-year effort by artist Sue Coe to record the workings of the meat industry...
...What is new," Coe continues, "is intensive-farming biotechnology, gene-splicing, patenting of life forms, science without ethics, overproduction, and the millions of dollars spent on advertising a product that is dangerous to our health...
...With CoeTs work, art has become humanity's last line of defense against corrosive social forces...
...A retrospective of her work is on exhibit through March at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England...
...The conditions are still dangerous and unsanitary...
...feels itself to be in danger of breaking down...
...My intent," says Coe, "is to depict the casual slaughter of animals, the mechanization of this process, and the concealed labor...
...Coe's art, Donald Kuspit wrote in the catalog of her 1987 traveling exhibit, "Police State," is "the powerful protective reaction of an immune system that...
...A collection of her paintings and drawings was published in 1985 by Scarecrow Press...
...The process is still cruel and inefficient...
...She is the author or co-author of several books, including How to Commit Suicide in South Africa (with Holly Metz...
...The workers still shed their blood, along with that of the animals, on the killing floor...
...Not much has changed in this industry since Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906...
...so widespread is the plague of inhumanity that it is responding to...
...It's important for me, as a human being and as an artist, to witness what is concealed and so come to understand our collusion in a process that weighs every living creature for its 'use value.'" Sue Coe's graphics have appeared in The Progressive and many other publications...
Vol. 53 • March 1989 • No. 3
