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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSN0720247820070907?pageNumber=2<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>Artist
opens first plant porn theater<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Fri Sep 7, 2007 4:45PM EDT<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>By
Belinda Goldsmith<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'>NEW YORK</span></font></st1:place></st1:State>
(Reuters Life!) - An American artist has come up with a new form of movie --
pornography for plants featuring uncensored pollination.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Conceptual
artist Jonathon Keats said he came to appreciate the impact of entertainment on
non-human audiences while choreographing a ballet for honeybees last year,
selectively planting flowers among hives to direct the bees' moves.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He
decided to try to entertain plants, arguing that they were sensitive to light
so cinema was "practically made for them." But rather than let them
watch a film he decided to make a film to project on their leaves so they could
absorb it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Keats
said he could not judge plants' mind-set so he decided to settle on the one
thing that was bound to be a hit -- sex.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"I
knew enough about their reproduction process to make an educated guess at what
might titillate them and that was pollination," Keats told Reuters.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>He filmed
a six-minute long video of plants getting pollinated then edited his uncensored
footage into a gritty black-and-white porn video. The result was what he claims
to be the world's first plant porn movie, "Cinema Botanica."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"It
is very boring but that is part of the essence of pornography, that it is very
repetitive," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>During
September his film will be projected onto an audience of 60 house plants lined
in rows at the 1078 Gallery, an alternative arts space in Chico, California - a
venue Keats has dubbed "the world's first porn theater for house
plants."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
gallery will be open to people to go and watch.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"This
project is an initial effort to bring cinema to the plant kingdom but also it
gives humans the chance to reflect on themselves by stepping away from everyday
experiences and looking back on themselves," said San Franciso-based
Keats.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"The
work gets done through the interaction and the conversations that take place
around this."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Keats,
35, who studied philosophy at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Amherst
College</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Massachusetts</st1:State></st1:place>,
has a track record for large-scale thought experiments which he hoped triggers
conversations and challenges people's views.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In 2003
Keats copyrighted his mind and recently he exhibited extraterrestrial abstract
artwork. But he is best known for trying to genetically engineer God in a petri
dish in collaboration with scientists at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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Reuters Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of
relevant interests.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#004000'>Jennifer Tsang<br>
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