I Love a One-Man Allegorical Parade
Atlanta performance artist Ben Fain presents Gemini's Brine tonight in the parking lot at Masquerade.
Next week look for a piece titled "Man in a Mastodon T-shirt Looking to Score Some Weed" in the same location.
The Masquerade is to go condo soon though I've been doing this bit for almost 2 years now:
posted by Brian Bannon @ 4:29 PM
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did you go to that? i know a guy who did, and he had some freaky pictures of it.
I did go. It was interesting and a neat idea but a little underwhelming for all the fuss. Renting the parking lot, portable lights and bleachers, security and even an ambulance at the end all to move a couple of the floats a few feet over (the rest just sat there) and fake off a cop. But not in an action movie kinda way, in a drawn-out performance art kinda way.
It needed better music and more movement. Maybe if he'd skimped on the wine or champagne bottles they smashed--you really couldn't tell from that far away--he could have had a live band and dancers. But that'd be more like a show than a visual piece you ponder over.
It was sorta like the Mughal Emporer saluting his 3rd favorite wife by commissioning a giant lean-to.
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