Tiger's Whip is an installation and performance piece by Tang Da Wu performed in 1991 in Singapore's Chinatown. It consisted of ten life-sized tigers made from wire mesh covered with white linen. Tang, wearing a sleeveless white garment, dragged one of the tigers behind him. A modified version of the installation is in the Singapore Art Museum. It features a tiger with its front paws resting on the back of a rocking chair, which is draped with a piece of red cloth and with a phallus painted on it in red. The work highlights how the tiger is being hunted to extinction for its penis, which some Chinese believe has aphrodisiac qualities. In February 1995, the Museum chose Tiger's Whip to represent Singapore at the Africus International Biennale in Johannesburg, South Africa. Another of Tang's works in the Singapore Art Museum is an untitled sculpture often called Axe (1991), which is an axe with a plant growing out of its wooden handle. It is regarded as an early example of found art in Singapore.
In my opinion, Tiger's Whip is such a symbolic work that contains a lot of interesting undertone and message. I am pretty much symphatetic about the conditions where tigers are hunted just for their genitals. In China, i heard that the government has been discussing about the possibility of creating a so-called 'Tiger's Farm' where tigers are being reared due to the increasing demand for tigers' genitals by the increasingly affluent chinese. Sounds outrageous??
WELL, the idea of eating tiger's -peep- is just gross!!
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