Governor General Award for Visual Arts goes to Author of “Blood Campaign”

OTTAWA, March 8, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Istvan Kantor has been selected as one of this this years’ recipients of the Governor General’s award for Visual and Media Arts. Kantor is well known for his 1977 “Blood Campaign” during which, among other stunts, he suspended himself naked in the lotus position with his mouth full of his own blood. The same “performance” displayed Kantor naked in a shallow grave while a vial of his own blood was made to ooze from his anus.  The awards acknowledge “distinguished career achievement” in media and visual arts. In a statement released in advance of the awards, to be given out on March 10, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson said “Whether as teachers, as advocates or as makers of art (and often as all three), the honourees are leaders, advance guards of our developing culture.”  Among the recipients is also included Eric Cameron, famous for layering hundreds of coats of paint over normal, “everyday objects”.  Each recipient gets $15,000 of Canadian taxpayers money, as well as a ceramic original from last year’s winner of the Saidye Bronfman Award, Walter Ostrom.  Adrienne Clarkson was featured on LifeSiteNews.com last month for conferring the Order of Canada upon Eldon Hay, a homosexual activist United Church minister who performed a homosexual ‘marriage’ in New Brunswick. Same-sex “marriage” remains against the law in that province. See the report at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04021001.html   Read the CBC coverage of the award at: https://toronto.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=to_kantor20040303   Also read the related LifeSiteNews.com report “Canadian Governor General Sends Congrats on Gay ‘Marriage’” at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/jan/01011601.html