A three-decade-long tradition of installing ice sculptures filled with flash-frozen fish is receiving backlash from animal rights activists at a Japanese ice festival. For 33 of the Sapporo Ice Festival's 68 years, artists have created structures from ice blocks containing frozen fish, amongst massive architectural ice carvings and larger-than-life snow sculptures of Studio Ghibli characters and other pop culture icons.A photo posted by Zoe Gan (@zei93) on
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Last year's frozen fish sculptureThe relationship between artists and animal rights activists can be rocky, as artists like Damien Hirst, Wim Delvoye, and Guillermo Vargas have received petitions, hate mail, and threats for using animals in their art. The San Francisco Art Institute cancelled a 2008 show by Algerian-born Adel Abdessemed, which included video of the artist killing a pig, a goat, a deer, an ox, a horse, and a sheep, after recieving threats of violence from animal activists.来月雪まつりだけど、某ワールドの影響で中止になるって一度言われてたススキノに展示される魚氷、なんとか継続されるんだよね。
ただ規模は縮小されるとのことで。
去年でスポンサー付き魚氷見納めだったんだなぁ。 pic.twitter.com/OyIZ2iipVJ— イサナ (@isana23210) January 30, 2017
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See more photos from the Sapporo Ice Festival on Instagram.Related:The American Dream Melts at the Republican National Convention—LiterallyThe Sickest Photos of China's New LED Ice PalaceThe World Ice Art Championships Are a Garden of Frozen DelightsA photo posted by chacha (@cha_c_h_a_cha) on
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