Artist's 'Cloning Agency' Replicates Jesus, Lady Gaga

LiveScience ^ | May 31, 2013 | Mike Wall

[EveningStar]

The second coming of Jesus Christ may be on the horizon — along with the third, fourth and fifth incarnations, depending on how quickly an artist's new "cloning tincture" catches on.

Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats is giving everyone the chance to become the Christian messiah — and a number of other historical personages and celebrities as well — through his Epigenetic Cloning Agency, which opens a new branch at a Berlin gallery today (May 31).

[KarlInOhio]

So to become a person you consume a potion made of the same stuff from a person's environment? I want to become conceptual artist Jonathon Keats so I'll make a tincture of BS, more BS, liberal foolishness, a big dollop of egotistical self-promotion and a hair from an alchemist.

[jmcenanly]

The same environment that produced Christ also produced Judas and Barabbas. This is nothing more than 21st century snake oil

[randog]

For example, the recipe for becoming Jesus Christ includes, among other things, some basic components of the Mediterranean diet of the time and substantial doses of omega-3 fatty acids (he likely ate a lot of fish),..."Probably the most important ingredient of all, though, is placebo," he added. "The amount of faith that he seems to have had was vast."

Faith is believing something without having absolute proof. Jesus had absolute proof that he was the Son of God and stated as much many times. No faith required.

[pigsmith]

I'm still trying to figure how they could even vaguely define this as "art" by any stretch of the imagination...