| Jen |
I want to get a NEA grant to make an installation
exhibit entitled "MANTRAPS: An Exploration of Tripwires, Trap
Doors, and Electrified Surfaces". |
| Szor |
I would invest heavily in your art. I would subsidize
you.
|
| Jen |
Oh really. :) |
| Szor |
Really!
|
| Jen |
"Your exhibit map delineates the location of
approximately half of the traps created by Jen Gagne. Please
proceed carefully through the exhibition. Our guests of advanced
stature should pay special attention in the 'Razor of Damocles'
room..." |
| Szor |
Aaah, here we have entered my personal favourite
of rooms. Please sit at this writing desk, yes. A journalist,
you said you were? Are you enjoying the "Occam's Razor" exhibit?
Ooh. That might leave a mark. Right then.
|
| Jen |
Tee hee hee! |
| Szor |
Aaah, what a team we'd make! I love being a tourguide.
|
| Jen |
Quote from my brother: "It's not just art, it's
an adventure. Will you have flaming swinging ropes to cross
the pungi pit?" |
| Szor |
My good man, I am shocked, nay, wounded, that
such a suggestion would be made. There will be no flaming ropes
to cross pungi pits with. There will, however, be innocuously
placed camouflaged, flaming spiked pungi pits. |
| Jen |
Yeah honestly, why give them a way across? |
| Szor |
The idea isn't to be merciful at all. It's supposed
to be a demonstration of the glorious and well-established art
of Jen Gagne. My suggestion, as your primary backer, is to give
patrons enough of a map to get them into the thick of it. If
they wish to buy a map for the other half, to escape safely,
surely they could afford to donate a mere pittance of a few
hundred dollars to the gallery.
|
| Jen |
Perhaps they can rent the artist as a guide? |
| Szor |
Well, that would be the premium service, of course.
Maps of various qualities could be had for perfectly reasonable
rates. Tourguides and 'interviews' with the artist would be
costlier, but one would have the benefit of deriving maximum
pleasure from the exhibits.
|
| Jen |
Maximum pleasure, and maximum survival rates.
The maps would become collector's items of course. |
| Szor |
Naturally! In order to keep the gallery interesting,
it would be changed around at fairly random intervals... |
And so on, and so on. Heh. It kind of reminded me of the abbatoir
sketch from Monty Python.
