David Cerny's 'Entropa', a new work of public art in Brussels recently unveiled to mark the ensuing Czech presidency of the EU.
Now that's grabbed your attention, hasn't it?
But wait. As the vicious and hilarious space-filler Marina Hyde observes: "Entropa is state of the art insult-spewing technology. It is the South Park of public sculptures, contriving to be hilarious at the same time as offending virtually everyone."
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/17/david-cerny-entropa
This clip is pretty prosaic in itself, but much hilarity surrounds it if you can be arsed to do the googling.
*EDIT* please post a link in this thread if you can find something funnier that tells the tale. With my connection, the above 4'26" clip took more than an hour to download, so I was hardly in a position to shop around...
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Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 13:35,
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I heard about this on't news.
I believe the commissioners said they wanted something that challenged European stereotypes. Mission accomplished, I should think.
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Kamikaze Stoat £4.09, Sun 18 Jan 2009, 14:24,
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Apparenly
We're represented by an empty space. Talk about getting off lightly...
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