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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That's a tough one..I like art quite a lot, but I'd have to say a lot of it is merely bad rather than pretentious.
To single a few examples out though:
Modern art exhibition in The Lowry a while back, featuring 'exhibits' of a piece of paper with three straight lines drawn on it. It's no Bridget Riley.. (Its other exhibitions are great)
Pretty much anything by David Blaine, Derren Brown or many things by Paul Daniels. Ditto Harry Enfield, you Pete n' Dud robbing barsteward.
Matrix 2 and 3. There's no special subplot, the background isn't consistent : it's just shit.
John Cage's 4'33". Yes, I get the point - and it's a reasonable one. The pretention is that he spent years slaving over it - oh really? 9-5 every day then?.
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