https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teemu_M%C3%A4kiTeemu Tuomas Mäki (born 14 October 1967) is a Finnish artist, theatre director and writer. He was born in Lapua, and was one of the first Finnish artists to gain a doctorate (Finnish Art Academy 2005). In 2008–2013 he was the Professor of Fine Arts in Aalto University.
Since 2018 Mäki is the chair person of The Artists' Association of Finland
As a student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki, in 1988 Teemu Mäki became notorious in Finland for a video art work titled Sex and Death, which includes a segment in which he killed a cat and masturbated over the cat's dead body.
In 1991 Mäki was convicted of fraud and animal cruelty due to his giving an affidavit to a local animal rescue center, that he would treat the animal well and would not kill it without the rescue centre's permission. The court of appeal concluded, that the cat did not die quickly enough due to the poor quality of the axe used. The controversy was renewed in 2004, when the modern art museum Kiasma bought the video for its collection. After the second uproar in 2004 Mäki wrote an essay about the subject.
Why does this sick asshole enjoy a position of some prominence in the art world? There is a point of no return and a line that cannot be crossed. Masturbating over the corpse of a dead animal is well over that line.
Why does the art world tolerate deplorable behavior and justify it as art?
If there are any Finns who happen to read this post, I'd like to know more about the the Artists' Association of Finland. Is it taxpayer funded? If not, who is funding them?