i is a patron of the artsch *hic*

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Art Exhibition Openings: a valid way to express one's appreciation of the local Art community, or just a great source of free drinks and nibbles at the Council's expense?

in related news, owwww my head.

― petra jane, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Clearly, the answer is both.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

FREE! DRINKS! CHEESE! DRINKS! FREE!

I love art.

― electric sound of jim, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

booze at exhibition openings = classic. i don't know anything about art, so its a good way to seduce bozos like me into it.

― di, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*makes mental note* Di = seduced by booze. gotcha.

― petra jane, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mostly art exhibition openings are celebrations so the demon drink is entirely approriate.Plus its great when ya get all boozed up and make statements about the ART - loudly with flaying arm actions.

― ducklingmonster, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

for even drunkereneder expressions of one's appreciation I suggest supporting your local fashion community.bubbly bubbly bubbly.

― ducklingmonster, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

drunkereneder

A beautiful term. I know see what Hamish meant the other day about expecting me to buy all of you drinks. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cheers ned. You may now express your appreciation of the local drunkedin community. I'll drink to that.

― ducklingmonster, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

*hic*

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the problem in dunedin (well okay so probably this is not a dunedin thing only) is the art at art openings is usually not very good. the blue oyter gallery has openings every second tuesday with beer and sometimes wine...they used to have monteiths in bottles yum but don't seem to have monteiths sponsership anymore - a few times ago they even had ranfurly in cans! scuzzy. also i'm not sure how the sponsership worked anywa'cause i heard the exhibitionists have some responsibility for providing the beer? the art there is usually boring; too minimalist...so yes the booze is the draw but i don't know how much standing around with cool people can you handle?
there was this one fancy schmancy one we went to at the dunedin public art gallery, with mucho mucho free champagne and we got too drunk and didn't even make it upstairs to see the exhibition. [rainy was there, with flowers in her hair i think, i didn't know her or what she looked like then].
i think it's about time for another of those openings. the ones with vege sushi and fancy cheese and champagne are my favourite.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and hey di, of course you know stuff about art!
you think those people with their art at, say, blue oyster gallery openings necessarily, always, or even mostly know alot about art???

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah i heard monteiths wanted to up-market the image so they sponsored a whole bunch of galleries. at the blue oyster summer themed opening i poured myself a glass of cheapy-pinky-bubbly and was told that the $5 bubbly was ART ACTUALLY but it was ok to drink it so you make art most weekends Di! how clever :b

― ducklingmonster, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that's classic, ducklingmonster!

when i 1st went there, with hamish, we thought the table with all the beer bottles lined neatly up on it might be the art, cause there was barely anything else in the room. and us and grant mcdougall were the only people. i think the art turned out to be, like, two pieces of black paper stuck to the wall.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

after a couple of margaritas and the i-can't-taste-the-cranberry-for- the-overpowering-stench-of-vodka cosmopolitans of last night's opening, i seem to recall my mate ripping the programme [fancy, recycled paper] into neat 1 inch squares, throwing them haphazardly at someone's feet, and a group of us discussing, on Oh Yah artsnob voices, the dataist ramifications and the paradigm shift from modernist lineality to post- postmodern chaos theory. with lots of big words. and giggling fits. i recommend you all try it.

― petra jane, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dataism vs dadism. fite!

hmmm i think it's just too easy a target and so maybe you should just talk about something interesting. i'm not very good at this, so i just shuffle around looking nervous.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Which is exactly WHY you chug down drinks, in the first place;>

Hell, slap "free" on it, and I wouldn't turn it down, either.

(a glass of White, please...)

― Nichole Graham, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

petra, don't go expecting yer fancy margaritas and cranberry-n-vodka when you come to dunedin. we drink BEER in the south.

― elizabeth anne marjorie, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can't I even get one cosmopolitan down there when I visit?

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

we'll take you for wanky cocktails in Auckland, Ned. it's just that sort of place yeknow, daaahling.

and you'll all be thrilled to note my second mid-semester break is the 1st to the 14th of september. ph33r.

― petra jane, Tuesday, 12 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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