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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Starving Artists |
| 2005-02-07 |
| Emily Katrencik is eating the wall that separates the gallery's exhibition space from the bedroom of its director, Louky Keijsers. How is that wall, Emily? Kinda dry? Yep...Probably why they call it "drywall"... Five days a week, Ms. Katrencik consumes a section of wall 1.956 inches square and three sheets of drywall thick, for a total of about 8.5 cubic inches of drywall; she rests on Sundays and Mondays. Each meal takes about half an hour. She began on Jan. 1, to ensure that there would be a sizable hole before the opening on Jan. 28, and will keep it up until the exhibition closes on Feb. 27, at which time she calculates the hole will be large enough to stick your head through. She usually gnaws directly on the wall, working away at a sizable, eye-level hole, and avoids eating when the public is present. Video of her ingestion is included in the exhibition; she also removes some of the plaster and bakes it into loaves of bread, which are available for gallery visitors to sample. "Part of it is that I'm really broke," she said, "so this is a way to get the gallery to cover my food costs." Things are worse than I thought. |
| Posted by:mojo |
| #12 Character name was "Ron Obvious". Also was going to jump the English Channel...(previous best - 7 feet) |
| Posted by: Phitle Glavise4997 2005-02-07 7:24:53 PM |
| #11 Terry Jones, methinks. With Eric Idle as the unscrupulous promoter... |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-02-07 4:05:35 PM |
| #10 Who was the character on M. Python? He was going to eat a cathedral. I think Terry Gilliam played him. |
| Posted by: Anonymous7001 2005-02-07 3:48:36 PM |
| #9 well as dice clay used ta say "if she could eat a dozen apples and shit a fruit salad, now that would be somethin'" |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2005-02-07 3:43:41 PM |
| #8 Not so fast, there: if these idiots are turned away from "art" schools, they're going to end up in "journalism" schools. And we all know where THAT leads... Well, yes, but if we'd enforce the Constitutional definition of -- and penalty for -- treason, we'd have a lot fewer journalists. And, for God's sake, can't some of these people go into something CONSTRUCTIVE, like bathroom attendant? |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-02-07 3:34:53 PM |
| #7 You know, when they said, "Art is dead" 100 years ago, they weren't kidding. |
| Posted by: gromky 2005-02-07 3:32:47 PM |
| #6 We used to have the geek show at the circus.... that's no longer a career option. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2005-02-07 3:17:00 PM |
| #5 When people thinking eating dry wall is somehow "artistic", or are just trying to get noticed, then maybe we're letting too many people into "art" schools. Not so fast, there: if these idiots are turned away from "art" schools, they're going to end up in "journalism" schools. And we all know where THAT leads... |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2005-02-07 2:33:13 PM |
| #4 Mental illness, possibly brought on by eating lead paint chips as a toddler. |
| Posted by: Tom 2005-02-07 2:31:53 PM |
| #3 Is it bad that I hope she chokes on it? I mean, who else is sick and tired of the glut of "artists" we have? When people thinking eating dry wall is somehow "artistic", or are just trying to get noticed, then maybe we're letting too many people into "art" schools. If they were actually CREATIVE and TALENTED they wouldn't need stunts to get noticed. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-02-07 2:22:24 PM |
| #2 mmmm.... lead paint chips and salsa |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-02-07 1:04:06 PM |
| #1 Either the NYT really respects 'art' or it's trying to behave itself. No political-spin in the article. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-02-07 12:44:49 PM |