An After Art Dinner Speech ...
I've been out of town so often lately that the posts about these events have been sadly delayed. I have though seen & heard some of the best 'art' in non-art venues I've been to in a long time.
Karen and I hosted our It's A Lake District Knockout up in Coniston (nearest village to Karen's house) which seemed to go down pretty well. Whether anyone thought of it as part of an arts festival who knows ...
It was followed by a set of strange and fantastic events that the audience (which was dwindling with every new turn) evidently didn't either appreciate or care if it was art.
Following a dinner for all the It's A Knockout contestants cooked by (the industry that is) Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall of River Cottage (I'd like to say more about how weird this was but may require a separate post) Artist Bedwyr Williams addressed the crowd with An After Dinner Speech about food golf and I think Wales. It was fantastic - the super long delay between his speech and the amplified version of it that eventually fed back to us from the enormous PA for the games which was sending it out to the mountains and bouncing it back, only added to the surreal quality of his already dry yet hilarious commentary.
Sadly it proved a step to far for the contestants who left the table in nervous droves as Bedwyr pressed on valiantly alternately striking golf balls through a welsh harp and recounting disastrous local restaurant occasions. By the end about 8 of the audience remained and as evidenced by this image Bedwyr was hardly in the mood for competitive costume photography
Karen and I hosted our It's A Lake District Knockout up in Coniston (nearest village to Karen's house) which seemed to go down pretty well. Whether anyone thought of it as part of an arts festival who knows ...
It was followed by a set of strange and fantastic events that the audience (which was dwindling with every new turn) evidently didn't either appreciate or care if it was art.
Following a dinner for all the It's A Knockout contestants cooked by (the industry that is) Hugh Fearnley-Wittingstall of River Cottage (I'd like to say more about how weird this was but may require a separate post) Artist Bedwyr Williams addressed the crowd with An After Dinner Speech about food golf and I think Wales. It was fantastic - the super long delay between his speech and the amplified version of it that eventually fed back to us from the enormous PA for the games which was sending it out to the mountains and bouncing it back, only added to the surreal quality of his already dry yet hilarious commentary.
Sadly it proved a step to far for the contestants who left the table in nervous droves as Bedwyr pressed on valiantly alternately striking golf balls through a welsh harp and recounting disastrous local restaurant occasions. By the end about 8 of the audience remained and as evidenced by this image Bedwyr was hardly in the mood for competitive costume photography
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