What is the deal with throwing tacos?
I have never in my life been more disappointed to read an advertisement two hours after an event happened than when I read this:
Come and witness history as the artist passionately hurls 97 tacos at our lady Helen Hunt. With music from Rudi (strange noise sound system) this once in a lifetime performance piece should not be missed!
That paragraph did not really need of an exclamation mark at the end.
Whoever said there is nothing new under the sun* clearly had not met Melbourne artist Bethany J Fellows.
My disappointment is slightly moderated by the discovery that the tacos were being hurled at a picture of Helen Hunt, not the actual person. I suppose it would be fairly hard to arrange to have exactly 97 tacos handy just when Helen Hunt was coincidentally walking past.
You can read more* about this somewhat intriguing event here.
This sort of random stupidity should, of course, be encouraged, and art doesn’t come much more random and stupid than this. Bethany J Fellows, we salute you etc etc.
But the more I think about it, the less disappointed I feel to have missed this. Sure, I love that this event happened, but surely to actually watch this would get reasonably tedious after, say, the first 54 tacos. Do they use different seasoning on the last 43 tacos to keep this interesting? Is there an intriguing mix of traditional and radical new flat based tacos? Or is it just, possibly, slightly repetitive?
So, staying home and eating butterscotch icecream while watching Pirate Master is actually looking like a pretty good choice right now.
* Tradition tells us that it was King Solomon. Ironically, he is generally considered to have been the first person to say this.
** although, frankly, not much more
Come and witness history as the artist passionately hurls 97 tacos at our lady Helen Hunt. With music from Rudi (strange noise sound system) this once in a lifetime performance piece should not be missed!
That paragraph did not really need of an exclamation mark at the end.
Whoever said there is nothing new under the sun* clearly had not met Melbourne artist Bethany J Fellows.
My disappointment is slightly moderated by the discovery that the tacos were being hurled at a picture of Helen Hunt, not the actual person. I suppose it would be fairly hard to arrange to have exactly 97 tacos handy just when Helen Hunt was coincidentally walking past.
You can read more* about this somewhat intriguing event here.
This sort of random stupidity should, of course, be encouraged, and art doesn’t come much more random and stupid than this. Bethany J Fellows, we salute you etc etc.
But the more I think about it, the less disappointed I feel to have missed this. Sure, I love that this event happened, but surely to actually watch this would get reasonably tedious after, say, the first 54 tacos. Do they use different seasoning on the last 43 tacos to keep this interesting? Is there an intriguing mix of traditional and radical new flat based tacos? Or is it just, possibly, slightly repetitive?
So, staying home and eating butterscotch icecream while watching Pirate Master is actually looking like a pretty good choice right now.
* Tradition tells us that it was King Solomon. Ironically, he is generally considered to have been the first person to say this.
** although, frankly, not much more
posted by I'm not Craig at 9:43 PM
3 Comments:
And one would hope they were the soft tacos, so as not to cause irreparable damage to the Picture of Helen Hunt.
Oh you urbane Melbournites you, with your performance art and cosy wine bars...
....and your butterscotch icecream....
Actonb
From my rather limited viewing of the photos, it looked like hard tacos to me.
Uh-oh.
Giggles
The important point here is that it is remarkably good butterscotch icecream.
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