Thread: The Rape Tunnel

In fact, his new controversial work, THE RAPE TUNNEL, which is set to go on view at Columbus’ 4D Gallery on October 30th, has come under fire from Columbus-based feminist groups not to mention, local law enforcement officials. The artist plans to place himself in a room, the only entrance or exit being a 22 ft long plywood tunnel constructed by Whitehurst himself. Then he says that for the duration of the gallery’s opening (from 7:00 p.m. to midnight) he will rape anyone who travels through the tunnel into that room.

Surely thats illegal

Haha fucking genius!

You'l get the odd slapper going just for a shag....





.....when i say odd...

Surely if he has claimed that he will rape anyone that walks through, and someone walks through, then they are willing participants, therefore it's not rape at all, it's just sex.

Any idea if these will be mass produced?

Originally Posted by green_t

Surely if he has claimed that he will rape anyone that walks through, and someone walks through, then they are willing participants, therefore it's not rape at all, it's just sex.

Any idea if these will be mass produced?

I see what you are saying. But why call it the rape tunnel as opposed to the sex tunnel :confused:

He's done the right thing it's got him noticed so fair play to the guy.

The artist plans to place himself in a room, the only entrance or exit being a 22 ft long plywood tunnel constructed by Whitehurst himself. Then he says that for the duration of the gallery’s opening (from 7:00 p.m. to midnight) he will rape anyone who travels through the tunnel into that room.

On a recent trip to Ohio, nearly all art-related conversation stirred wildly around Whitehurst and his tunnel, with half the people hailing him a vastly important figure to keep an eye out for, while others regarding his work as cheap and exploitative – not to mention very dangerous. :histerics:

As you travel through the tunnel, it gets smaller and smaller, making it so that you have to crawl and put yourself in a submissive position in order to reach the tunnel’s destination. At the end of the tunnel the subject will find me waiting in the project room and I’ll try to the best of my ability to overpower and rape the person who crawls through.

Why rape?

Because as an artistic gesture, it’s one of the most impactful I can think of. For the past ten years Ohio’s art scene has been largely centered around a string of alternative spaces in Akron’s warehouse district, where people had been putting on art shows. At the beginning I happily participated along with everyone else but then I started to feel like it wasn’t going anywhere. It dawned on me that if the work we created had never existed the world would be no different than if it had. None of it mattered to anyone outside of our small and insignificant circle of peers. I wanted something that would have more impact.

I started to think differently about my work. In 2007 at the Seward Projects Space in Columbus, I had my first breakthrough with an installation that was to be the prototype for this current one. It was called THE PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE TUNNEL. It was the same set-up as THE RAPE TUNNEL except at the end of the tunnel I’d punch the subject in the face instead of raping him or her. The impetus was completely reactionary to the current state of art, and motivated by pure frustration.

As it turns out, I ended up breaking the nose of the third person to crawl through the tunnel, an aspiring model. She went to the hospital and eventually sued me. Her modeling career was put on hold. The civil case was long and drawn out and the matter still hasn’t been resolved. To this day she still has unpaid medical bills. The point of this long aside is that all this took place two years ago, and I’m still having an impact on this young lady’s life, something not many other artists could claim about their work. :histerics:

Rape seemed like the next logical step.

Yeah this has already proven to be a hoax and was a huge parody on modern art which i found to be pretty fucking funny.

this bastard should get a bullet to the heed! if the police let this happen then they are as much scum than he is tbh! why the fuck would someone want to rape someone anyway? sick man bloody sick.

Originally Posted by Hoopymo

Yeah this has already proven to be a hoax and was a huge parody on modern art which i found to be pretty fucking funny.

Originally Posted by alsybhoy

this bastard should get a bullet to the heed! if the police let this happen then they are as much scum than he is tbh! why the fuck would someone want to rape someone anyway? sick man bloody sick.

http://gawker.com/5370397/rape-tunne...n-but-not-rape

http://www.geversaircraft.com/wt/wt5x7.htm

Originally Posted by Martin

Rape isn't funny. And it isn't something that should be trivialised for a talentless artist to try and get some publicity.

You're right it's not funny but at least it's being discussed, the more taboo something is the less it's being talked about and the seedier it becomes. I'm not suggesting there is a non-seedy side to rape but people have to be frank to get their point across like this artist did whether it was a hoax or not. These things have to be out in the open or it becomes something to be ashamed of like it was in the past.

all rapists should all fucking hang!

think he has a customer for the tunnel ?

haha, that wasn't a bad troll.

some craic he tried 2 rape sum man and ended up getting raped himself surely he couldn't sue the man seeing as the whole idea of the tunnel is for someone 2 get raped. if it does go through there might be quite alot of gay lads that turn up this so called artist could have quite a long day if some of these men go back for seconds :laugh: