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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just plain wierdI went to the Baltic on Friday to have a little looksee.
Watched this video installation where a guy asked members of the Liverpool housing Association to ask him a question and he would go to Lower World and ask the animal spirits for an answer.
So we is asked by all these old dears to find out if they have have a protector and what it is and thus the madness began...
So he gets keys and ties the to his shoes to make that lovely "jangling" noise and starts gargling water and spitting it on the carpet.
He then disappears into another room, turns on some drumming/chanting tape and appears wearing a full skinned deer, head and all.
After about 10 minutes of bird/dog/animal noises and prancing about like a twat (whilst the old dears go from hysterics to just plain horror) he 'comes down' and proceeds to tell them all about his animal spirit adventures talking to all manner of bird life.
I won't spoil the ending for you all in case you are in the region and fancy checking it out. i didn't know whether to laugh, stroke an imaginary beard or just run away. I chose the former.
Oooh and I saw another video installation there which involved pictures of people pooing into other peoples mouths, from now on I'm staying well away from art, you never get that with Rolf Harris!!
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