ChrisB

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/2743121.stm

"A performance artist paid £12,000 to kick a takeaway curry carton through a town centre has cancelled the event for fear of too much interest."

"The concept behind the take-away box performance was "to destabilise and question this revelry by kicking a take away curry and carton from one end of the High Street to the other."

FFS, I'll do that for £2,000 and the other £10,000 can give a nurse or somebody useful a nice bonus!

Popeye P1

Taxpayers money? My god what a shear waste. This bloke should be taken away in a straight jacket.

BTW I'll do it for a grand.

Scoobydick

I'll do it for 6 cans of Tennants Super.

Luke

It was cancelled as they felt it might give out a racist message!!

paulr

But it gets a reaction,...everyone's talking about it.Isn't that a form of art?

andrewdelvard

It may well be in the eyes of the pretentious but it shouldn't cost 12K. That is quite simply obscene.

paulr

Read here

The £12,000 fee also included a number of other stunts as well.It wasn't just for kicking the carton of curry.The point was to highlight anti-social youths in Bedford.I'm sure the people of Bedford are now aware of the problem and if it results in a tidier town centre all the better.

andrewdelvard

I do hope the anti-social youths have taken note of this art and will therefore remedy there ways on a Saturday night.

paulr

Andrew....do i detect a hint of sarcasm in your reply...

unclebuck

I hope he gets kicked from one end of the street to the other, the fcukin' waster [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

The Zohan

Just think thats 6 moths wages for a PC, 8 months for a nurse/paramedic, 2 weeks for a Fireman
Now i wonder which would make the most sense!

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Performance art - my @rse [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

Claudius

With or without the curry in it?

paulr

Not for EVERY nurse or copper it wouldnt.Anyway why does everything come down to "oh that'd pay for a hip operation,thats one extra policeman etc,etc".If everyone thought the same as you no-one would take any risks or do anything different in life.

It'd be a boring f*cking world....

ChrisB

Fair enough Paul, but...

He kicks this curry down the road and does the other things this week. By next week no one will remember a thing about it, it won't have changed anything (IMO at least).

However, if it had gone towards funding a new police officer for a year, that's a much longer lasting thing with much bigger benefits to all.

paulr

Chris....i see where you're coming from but the Metropolitan Police Authority budget alone is £1.996bn.......£12,000 is nothing.

ChrisB

Hmm, tis indeed a drop in the ocean isn't it?

I wonder what the total would be if you added up all the money spent on 'project' like this?

andrewdelvard

I just think that the people who have decided to spend and spunk this money away have no real idea or concept of what goes on in a typical city centre town on a Saturday night. It's been a waste of 12K. Repairs to a knackered cctv camera somewhere would have been a better idea. This? just lots of pats on backs, great idea comments, promotion for someone....But those symbolic curry cartons are still going to be dropped and kicked.

[Edited by andrewdelvard - 2/10/2003 10:24:04 AM]

paulr

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[Edited by paulr - 2/10/2003 11:00:28 AM]