Artists = idiots

[WR450_geezer]

An artist's plan to leave six taps running for a year at secret London locations has angered Thames Water.

Performance artist Mark McGowan says it is a protest against private control of water in the UK.

The water company has threatened legal action to stop the "irresponsible" stunt which comes during a prolonged drought in southern England.

Last year McGowan left a tap running in a south London gallery, but bowed to pressure to turn it off after a month.

That stunt used 800,000 litres of water, and angered many Thames Water customers and gallery visitors - some of whom turned off the tap themselves.

This time he intends to keep the taps running at secret London addresses, sending an estimated 100 million litres down the drain.

Pull the plug

McGowan said that private water companies made a profit while wasting billions of gallons of water a year through under-investment.

"I understand we are in a drought. But I am an artist so I'm not actually wasting water for nothing."

A Thames Water spokesman said the company planned to take immediate legal action once it knew where the taps had been left running.

Pointing out that London and the South East get less rain per head of population than Istanbul and Dallas, he said: "For the sake of the environment we call on Mr McGowan to abandon this childish game now."

McGowan has previously made a name for himself by rolling a monkey nut across London with his nose to highlight student debt, and pulling a bus with his big toe in protest against bus lanes and mayor Ken Livingstone's "ridiculous traffic strategy"

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4822418.stm

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technical he'd be breaking the water regulations if he were to do this:

using water for commercial gain requires a meter to be fitted and he would be charged at a commercial tariff (fu(king expensive)

plus their is also a penalty for misuse and wastage of water.

really anal i know, but hey when you know these things it good share them

rob
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[Itchy]

I don't know why he doesn't just set up a pump type system where it looks like its going down the plug hole but goes into a storage tank where it is pumped back out of the tap , with a faux pas water meter next to it pretending it using that much it'd probably get a similar reaction but be much less harmful to the environment.

[phantomtek]

What an absolute fanny.

[Visitor Q]

[Rookie]

[Itchy]

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[LustyLew]

If I were to drown him in the sink of one of these running taps, would that be Art? Or just a favour to society?

The twat probably has a bastard child called Jocasta, smokes far too much crack and still listens to the 'Cats' soundtrack every morning.

"Oh darling, it's fantastic."

Ooooh! I'm angry now!
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[killa]

Oooh something I’m very interested in, purely to amuse myself, I have to say the word ‘Artist’ nowadays is a name given to any div who can make people listen/look/touch something they’ve supposedly created.
I must say that some artists I’ve seen on TV and the odd gallery have appeared to be so disillusioned by their own work you feel sorry for them in someway, the money they get from it though seems worth the bullshit.
One great example of how messed up these people are is from that Ali-G show in the US, the gay dude he does goes around various ‘arty’ circles making utter pricks of people who deem themselves as talented.
One woman was interviewed on her clothing range, “So this show is about the individual, why is that?” to which she answered with something like “This show is about the individual so I can highlight that we shouldn’t be trodden on by the society blah blah blah”
Then a little while after he asks “This show seems to be about all the people, why is that?” lol, she came up with an answer for everything, no matter how irrelevant.
I find the argument for this type of pish as moronic as the religion one, no matter what you come up with based on facts, the scene has such a following from di*k heads the world over you can’t prove anything. TBH I’d say let them get on with it as it generally doesn’t affect the majority, but when it is using resources like this I think it’s only fair we shoot him.
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[Fast Jon]

To beat this moron's face to a pulp and leave him groaning in the gutter. Now that would be art. These talentless fucks fill me with the urge to get medieval.

[Kickstart]

Hi

Can see why he is not recycling the water, as a protest over the way water is wasted. That 1m litres of water wasted in a year is nothing. Thames Waters target (that they have failed to meet) for leakage is 915m litres of water per day.

The art is still rubbish though.

Years ago Charlotte worked for a company that was based in the same building as a modern art gallery. One day they put a flower vase out with some of the edges from continuous paper arranged in it. Nobody noticed for a while until someone tried to buy it .

All the best

Keith
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[Steve H]

I dunno what all the fuss is about, it’s hardly gonna induce a nation of critics to ponder the significance of such an abstract form.

Let’s face it if you look at it for more than 10 seconds you’re gonna want to take a p*ss so bad that any consideration that you might have regarding the innermost meaning of the piece is gonna be lost as soon as you enter a whiffy Public urinal.
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[thx1138]

I ignore hosepipe bans, I have 3 dogs, and a backyard. I hose it down daily for obvios hygine reasons...

[colin1]

this conceptual art stuff works if anyone takes an interest or reacts to it

everyone reacting to it here and thinking about it makes it a success in those terms

it would have failed if no one cared about it or was remotely interested in it

if this guy couldnt think of anything that people could remember he would have failed, by getting people to have an emotional reaction to his stuff he has succeeded in being noticed. its all about getting your attention and making a name for himself

if he stops getting reactions he wont be successful at what he is doing
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[numark1]

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[owdamer]

6 taps running at once?? I'd like to see him do that here. I can't run 2 taps at once. If I turn a tap on upstairs then I cant get any water downstairs. If I flush the bog I have to wait til the systern has refilled before the tap will work!!.
If they fitted a water meter to our house i'm sure our bill would halve, thats if the water pressure could make the meter work.

[Flip]

That's nothing. I'm going to get 6 artists, cut their wrists and have them bleed to death in 6 secret locations in Wales/Wirral.

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[McGee]

[numark1]

smallville owns.

[Andy C]

What i dont get it stuff like this is "art" (was bonny said) blar blar etc tec

But gaffetti is vanduism?? Im not a graffiti artist but some of the stuff in Brighton is amazing but this is vandeism, one time i saw a guy finish a painting of a guy holding a birthday cake and loads of really cool hard stuff and was amazing as a present for someome (i guess) and really made the blank wall look like a piece of art

but laying some stuff out is art??? i can understand "tagging" as vanduism as that looks horible.

Sometime life is f*cked up, this is one of those cases
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