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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Crouching tiger, fucking piggyThis has got to take the cake:
A workmate of mine is a curator for avant-garde art in his spare time and is particularly taken by the emerging art scene in China. So I ended up going to an exhibition he'd organised of arty videos made by Chinese loons who've somehow managed to avoid being executed.
Prize video showed a crowd of Chinese sullenly watching two pigs fucking. One pig was painted all over in Chinese characters and the others covered in Western letters. Both of them were squealing like ..er.. pigs, and this went on for three minutes, finishing in a slow-motion money shot.
Here was me thinking art was about Picasso and Raphael, when in fact it's all about decorated pigs wazzing all over the floor.
(, Thu 29 Sep 2005, 12:45, Reply)
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