The Art of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art
"Umeće ispijanja piva sa prijateljima je najviši oblik umetnosti". Ovako (otprilike) glasi naslov umetničkog koncepta kalifornijskog umetnika Toma Marionija, koji nekoliko decenija unazad organizuje društvena okupljanja, što u muzejima i galerijama, što u svom ateljeu i bircuzima, tokom kojih ispijanje piva postaje umetnički čin, odnosno umetnost pod kategorijom social art. I posle neka kažu da je konceptualna umetnost nepristupačna i nerazumljiva.
Citat: “I refer to it as social art,” says Marioni, a lanky, friendly-looking 73-year-old, on Wednesday evening, before dozens of guests arrived (pictured above, far right). “Mainly it’s socializing.”
So do people trip over the “art” part? “John Cage’s 4 ’33,' the silent piece, is a problem for some people. They don’t think it’s music,” he says. "Maybe the same people don’t think this is art. I think it’s a disguised performance — disguised because people think it’s real life.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/201.....useum.html
Citat:In 1970 Tom Marioni was invited to make an exhibition at the Oakland Museum of California. He asked sixteen friends to come to the museum on a Monday evening, when it was closed. The curator brought enough beer to go around, and everyone “drank and had a good time.” The empty beer bottles, tables, and chairs were left in situ for the run of the exhibition. Rather than a performance, The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art (1970) consisted of an action and its evidence. “Since I didn’t want to subject my friends to being performers, the public was not invited. . . . It was an important work for me, because it defined Action rather than Object as art. And drinking beer was one of the things I learned in art school.” At the start of the same year, Marioni had founded the Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA) in San Francisco, where he presented work by artists—including himself, under the pseudonym Allan Fish—experimenting with new art forms, such as conceptual art, sound art, performance and action art, installation, and video. Open to the public as a nonprofit, membership-driven museum, MOCA presented pioneering exhibitions and projects until 1984. In 1976 Marioni started Café Society, a Wednesday afternoon social club that met at Breen’s Bar, down the street from MOCA, where invited guests assembled to drink beer and talk about art. Evolving out of The Act of Drinking Beer, Café Society was a social artwork that brought people together under contrived circumstances to interact freely. Café Society has continued over the years in various iterations, including video screenings with free beer at MOCA and Marioni’s ongoing weekly Wednesday salons at his studio.
Marioni distinguishes his beer events from art receptions or parties through rules and aesthetics that define the space as art, including restricted guest lists, lighting, music, and a general ambiance of sophistication that he deems appropriate to an art experience: “I am a romantic and I wanted to try to recreate the café scene of artists and writers in Paris in the 20s. I thought of Café Society as drunken parties where ideas are born.” In keeping with this sentiment, when Marioni moved his beer-drinking salons to his studio, he renamed the event The Society of Independent Artists, after an organization that Marcel Duchamp helped found in 1916, which ironically rejected one of the French artist’s seminal works from its annual exhibition in 1917.
http://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/detail/exhibition_id/187
Blahhh, umetnost :pa sada onaj smajli sto se mrsti i nehajno odmahuje rukom: ...
Za koju godinu eto nama performansa u klanju kamila na trgu nekog velegrada. Ili pak secenja pola Kanadskih suma da bi se ispisao tekst koji moze da se vidi iz svemira.
Nikada necu shvatiti umetnike ...
Blahhh, umetnost :pa sada onaj smajli sto se mrsti i nehajno odmahuje rukom: ...
@Ricard
Znas onaj vic o seoskoj biblioteci? Cini mi se da je i ovaj plagijator ...
Znam za vic o biblioteci, zato i kažem da ću od sada ići u kafanu da se kulturno uždižem, ne moram više da se hvalim kako sam išao u biblioteku, i koje sam knjige čitao.
Umetnost je po definiciji vid izražavanja ideja na interesantan način... Ja ne vidim ni reč 'izražavanje' niti 'ideju' niti 'interesantno' u ovome.
Mućno mi je da gledam reč 'umetnost' u kombinaciji sa 'ispijanjem piva'.
Danas su umetnici tako precenjeni. Danas svako misli da može biti umetnik. Uzme pivo, naloče se, uzme nagradu i viče ulicama kako je on umetnik. A tema o izložbi Salvaroda Dalija čami tamo u podforumu o Likovnoj umetnosti, tone u listi tema... niko na nju ne obraća pažnju...
Kada jedan gimnazijalac (moj... poznanik - kada mi je žao što poznajem takvu osobu) nema pojma ko je Salvador Dali... tuga tužna
A kada bi video ovu temu, pao bi u nesvest od oduševljenja...
Melody ::Umetnost je po definiciji vid izražavanja ideja na interesantan način... Ja ne vidim ni reč 'izražavanje' niti 'ideju' niti 'interesantno' u ovome. Mučno mi je da gledam reč 'umetnost' u kombinaciji sa 'ispijanjem piva'.
Dobro, nisam sigurna da Marioni propagira banalizaciju umetnosti na način na koji ste ti i ostali učesnici teme to opisali. Ono što on radi ne izlazi iz, sada već tradicionalnog, toka konceptualne umetnosti. Stoga "ideja" iz tvoje definicije možda otpada, barem u smislu nečeg novog. Ali se meni ne čini da Marioni baš ništa ne izražava. Pri tom, ova okupljanja pre liče na kritiku petencioznih i hermetičnih pojava na savremenoj umetničkoj sceni, nego na njihov odraz.
Nisam u životu popila čašu piva, kamoli u društvu nekog umetnika, ali bih volela da se jednom promuvam kroz neku galeriju tokom događaja o kom je ovde reč, tek da osetim atmosferu koja tamo vlada. Valja pročitati ponešto u životu.
Umetnost vekovima uspešno izmiče konačnim definicijama. Dopao mi se tekst koji umetnik čita na kraju postavljenog video klipa, to je samo jedan od pokušaja objašnjenja pojma umetnosti:
"What is art for?
For beauty,
for history,
for decorating apartments,
for people to laugh at,
for imitating nature,
for therapy,
for seeing in a new way,
for an educated audience,
for enlightenment,
for political agendas,
for glorifying the church in the Renaissance,
for glorifying the state under Communism,
for glorifying the rich in capitalism,
for recording society in a poetic way."
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niko na nju ne obraća pažnju... 
