Beer + Drunk = art
 

Artist paid to drink beer and fall over

A Japanese artist has been paid £5,000 of taxpayers? money to drink 48 bottles of beer and then fall off a wooden beam.

The performance, at an arts centre in Cardiff, outraged members of the local council, reports the Times.

However, an arts centre spokesman said: ?This wasn?t just about a woman drinking a lot of beer. This was a powerful piece of art.?

Tomoko Takahashi, 39, who performs under the name Anti-Cool, was once nominated for the Turner Prize for her installations of rubbish.

She says her performance ?comments on the availability and use of mass-produced products?.

But she is now being accused of encouraging binge drinking through the performance art show at the Chapter arts centre in the Canton area of Cardiff.

The three-hour act consisted of Takahashi drinking more and more beer and trying to see how far she could walk across the beam before she fell off.

David Davies, a Conservative member of the Welsh Assembly, said: ?If anyone is daft enough to want to see a young woman getting plastered and tottering around in high heels, they can do it in just about every city centre most nights of the week.

?The worrying thing is that people are making decisions to hand out taxpayers? money like this when they are sober.?

Shit!!!
If I knew they paid for drunks I would never have given my husband the ultimatium to return to A.A. or I would leave him.

how the hell is she going to pee? 48 bottles? yikes

stupid fucking country... i paid £0.0002 for her to do that! well, i would if i earnt enough to pay tax!

totally fucking insane

Let's try to accpet the fact that art could be sometimes crazy.

I don't believe it..you would pass out after 20