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[quote=The Times]
Art of getting paid to drink
October 27, 2005
A JAPANESE artist has been paid £5000 of taxpayers' money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam.
The "performance", which took place at an arts centre in Cardiff, has outraged members of the local council and caused bafflement among the public, many of whom do exactly that every Friday and Saturday night, without getting paid.
However, an arts centre spokesman said: [b]"This wasn't just about a woman drinking a lot of beer. This was a powerful piece of art."[/b]
Tomoko Takahashi, 39, who performs under the name Anti-Cool, was once nominated for the Turner Prize for her installations of rubbish.
She says her performance "comments on the availability and use of mass-produced products".
But she is now being accused of encouraging binge drinking.
Takahashi put on the performance art show at the Chapter arts centre in the Canton area of Cardiff.
The 50 people watching the show, part of a month-long Experimentica 05 season, saw Takahashi dressed in a smart black business suit and high heels, drinking beer from a large bag suspended from the ceiling.
They then watched as she tried to walk across a narrow beam 60cm above the floor.
The three-hour act consisted of Takahashi drinking more and more beer and trying to see how far she could walk across the beam before she fell off.
David Davies, a Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, not to be confused with the Tory leadership candidate, said: "If anyone is daft enough to want to see a young woman getting plastered and tottering around in high heels, they can do it in just about every city centre most nights of the week.
"The worrying thing is that people are making decisions to hand out taxpayers' money like this when they are sober."
The Times [/quote]
Powerful piece of art my arse! Even worse is the fact that it is some Japanese bint who comes over gets sloshed on taxpayers money. How long are people going to let shysters and con artists like this pull the wool over their eyes? :rage:
Art of getting paid to drink
October 27, 2005
A JAPANESE artist has been paid £5000 of taxpayers' money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam.
The "performance", which took place at an arts centre in Cardiff, has outraged members of the local council and caused bafflement among the public, many of whom do exactly that every Friday and Saturday night, without getting paid.
However, an arts centre spokesman said: [b]"This wasn't just about a woman drinking a lot of beer. This was a powerful piece of art."[/b]
Tomoko Takahashi, 39, who performs under the name Anti-Cool, was once nominated for the Turner Prize for her installations of rubbish.
She says her performance "comments on the availability and use of mass-produced products".
But she is now being accused of encouraging binge drinking.
Takahashi put on the performance art show at the Chapter arts centre in the Canton area of Cardiff.
The 50 people watching the show, part of a month-long Experimentica 05 season, saw Takahashi dressed in a smart black business suit and high heels, drinking beer from a large bag suspended from the ceiling.
They then watched as she tried to walk across a narrow beam 60cm above the floor.
The three-hour act consisted of Takahashi drinking more and more beer and trying to see how far she could walk across the beam before she fell off.
David Davies, a Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, not to be confused with the Tory leadership candidate, said: "If anyone is daft enough to want to see a young woman getting plastered and tottering around in high heels, they can do it in just about every city centre most nights of the week.
"The worrying thing is that people are making decisions to hand out taxpayers' money like this when they are sober."
The Times [/quote]
Powerful piece of art my arse! Even worse is the fact that it is some Japanese bint who comes over gets sloshed on taxpayers money. How long are people going to let shysters and con artists like this pull the wool over their eyes? :rage:
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I don't get performance art.
But on the other hand I have paid good money to watch unknown bands play undeciferable rubbish on many occaisions.
It's just got to be art. The genius being that she has been paid to perform a minor circus act for big money.
And get pissed whilst doing it.
How smart is that?! That's real art, that is. Much better than some second rate watercolour of a meadow that took all day and is worth....burning.
But on the other hand I have paid good money to watch unknown bands play undeciferable rubbish on many occaisions.
It's just got to be art. The genius being that she has been paid to perform a minor circus act for big money.
And get pissed whilst doing it.
How smart is that?! That's real art, that is. Much better than some second rate watercolour of a meadow that took all day and is worth....burning.
billb said:
not as bad as the £9 million hospitals have spent on art this year according to bbc
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My uncle does papier mache? pictures and has donated them to his local hospital over the years. He keeps making new ones and he just goes to the hospital and replaces old ones with different ones from time to time and they circulate from his house to the hospital and back again...
Some of them are really cool and he has said to me that i can have one or two if i like them.
I don't want to tell him that I am scared that they may be full of some horrible infections and I don't want to introduce hospital germs into my house but I also don't want to put him off his hobby!
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