Nitsch performance using slaughtered bull to go ahead in Tasmania

A performance by the Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch, which will use the carcass of a slaughtered bull to stage a bloody, sacrificial ritual will take place, as planned, on 17 June in Tasmania.
 
Animal rights campaigners had tried to block the work, the artists first in Australia. By this morning, 27 April, a petition set up on change.org by Animal Liberation Tasmania, which called on the City of Hobart to stop the Nitsch performance because it trivialises the slaughter of animals for huma