KimyReizeger

Avoid Bain's Coaches at all costs. A track record for being shite throughout the area. Had a very bad experience myself which involved spending four hours to travel roughly 100 miles because the driver had failed to take a map. Very unhelpful staff who wanted us to pay 600 in cash for their services and refused to countenance our very legitimate complaint against them. They're the cheapest...for a reason!

Agreed. Very poor.

I saw Winter's Bone at the Belmont the other day. Pretty bad it was.

Tell me about it. Whoever thought toilet guys were a good idea!

I enjoyed it without being overwhelmed. Couple of songs really grabbed me though a lot does seem to have passed from memory. Corinne West's general movement has to be some of the jazziest I've seen in the folk world; looked as though she was really into the music, which was cool.

The disingenuous fuck who accosts everyone on Union Street and uses a question about 'a place to get a free meal in Aberdeen' as a prelude to asking for a pound.

I know that when you sell a house you have a duty to inform buyers about anti-social neighbours. Obviously it's a fraught territory and the definition of anti-social can be disputed. Regarding the guy with the loud tele - have you tried talking to him?

Maybe I too could get a living tattooing people who aren't really into tattoos.

Yes, that's its primary function, the function of which Duchamp was playing upon by sticking it in a gallery.

Things like the urinal exist as a reaction to representational art and the idea that art can only be used to imitate reality.

Just discovered my bedroom is a little on the leaky side.

The word 'pretentious' seems to be being bandied around more by people trying to stifle conversation than contribute to the topic.

You seem to be suggesting that if something is challenging it has no value. Perhaps she isn't making one bold statement. Perhaps her art simply reflects the confusion and frustration we all experience each and every day. The majority of people watch Avatar. If art was left to the majority of people then we'd still be drawing stick figures on cave walls.

Are you saying that because it is repulsive it isn't art? The performer doesn't 'insist' anything either.

Art isn't just about fruit-bowls and fields.

How can you judge whether or not it is art? I'd be interested to know your criteria for judging something as art / not art.

If you don't have a solid conception of what art is then I don't see how you can label this 'bad art'.

But people were watching it and we're talking about it. If you're so unaffected why bother making the thread?

A quick look on Wikipedia can always help too:

Interesting you use the term 'it was a load of shit'. The girl in the video says something similar.

I would say it's much more pretentious to label something 'not art' and refuse to clap, than to be an accepting and accomodating audience. Isn't it interesting that we have institutions which stage this kind of thing; that we have people who are motivated to perform it? What does it say about society?

It seems a lot of people are only comfortable with art as auditory / visual stimulation - a nice song or picture. This is certainly something else.

It's not that bad. It's slightly repulsive and therefore challenging, bringing up questions about the nature of art, artists and the stage. It pushes consciousness because you have never seen anything like it and are inspired to think about the motives behind the performance and the circumstances that give rise to it.

It's in the three pounds seventy five region. That said, now that they've stopped the open mic, perhaps the price will come down a bit. Or go up. Probably go up.