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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Well, seeing as i'm a painter, living in London's fashionable but cheap east end....I'm hardly spoilt for choice for answers...
Most memorable was the performance piece in a beaufitful victorian chapel just off the Befnal Green road. The chapel was darkened, and had what appeared to be globlets of sperm hanging from the ceiling (when the lights came up we could see that they were infact water bombs in white tights), and a german woman sort of crying about how her mother didn't love her.
Actually thinking about it thats quite good... even if I did have suppress laughter during the piece
Better than the sheer amount of pretentious art texts at exhibitions, referencing Baudrillard, Leyotard, and other icons of Postmodernity... its visual art it either works visually or not..
However I do wonder if a significant proportion of the people here would be saying 500 or so years ago 'ooh that Botticelli hes painted a woman standing up out of a seashell, whats that supposed to mean, eh? bloody artists!'
(, Thu 29 Sep 2005, 13:55, Reply)
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