Dispensary Corner

WHY would a 73-year-old man choose to be entombed in a mini-shipping container with the road resealed above him?

Apparently he considered it a work of “art” - performance artist Mike Parr had himself sealed into a container under a road as part of the Dark Mofo Festival on the island of Tasmania.

The container had oxygen pumped in and Parr had access to water, light, heat, reading and writing material as well as a stress button and a bucket for sanitary use, but no food.

The burial act was designed to highlight violence perpetrated by colonialists against Aboriginal communities, the festival said on its website.

Parr’s previous art included wrapping himself up in fusewire, then setting it alight, and sewing up his face - inspired, no doubt. MOST parents like to encourage their kids to be more cultured, however, when the only thing your son picks up from the Renaissance era is a rare case of Cowpox it can make the ambition rather spotty.

A 15-year-old boy from Britain was recently diagnosed with the extremely rare condition after feeding calves on his family farm.

Cowpox was most commonly caught by milking maids in the 18th Century and thankfully is not contagious from person to person.

“My son was quite embarrassed, it looked quite a mess and the lesions wasn’t pleasant for him,” the boy’s mum said.

After finding out the condition was caused by cows, the boy said he was dairy, dairy sorry.