Greenbelt

One performance

Few will be surprised to hear that my favourite event at Greenbelt this year was Bill Drummond's "How to be an Artist".

I enjoyed the way this event was so hard to categorise. Was it a piece of theatre? A talk? Personal storytelling? An exercise in collaborative painting? Destruction of a work of art? An examination of one particular photograph? Further adventures in capitalism? Just entertainment? In a sense it was all.

But what I love most is the fact that a month later I'm still thinking back to it. Is it all a con? Is the photograph that's been cut up and sold piece by piece a fake? I'm not sure I care. It may be hard to look back at the session and point out what the "art" of the event was, but it's nigh on impossible to claim there was none.