Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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UniI do a contemporary music course, it's all a bit wierd but it's usually pretty interesting and good fun. But sometimes the lecturers show us some documentary on some artist or other to try and give us ideas, but one of them just made half the class sick, partly out of disgust, partly out of rage.
Basically there's this bloke called Franko B, and his "art" consists of him bleeding in various ways. In a protest against the gay marriage laws, he painted himself white, cut into his wrists, stuck a pigs heart in his mouth and suspended himself above a circular canvas for a few minutes. Not long enough in my opinion, as he survived. Quite what that's got to do with the legally recognized unions of two consenting adults I have no idea. We also didn't know how we were supposed to incorporate those ideas into the stuff we come up with. We came round to the idea that the lecturers don't like us very much.
(, Sun 2 Oct 2005, 14:40, Reply)
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