Arts What Do We Want? Nothing!
Tonight the Henry Art Gallery is opening its two new shows, one an exhibition of mainly prints (with a few knockout paintings) by pop comics man Roy Lichtenstein, and the other a series of hysterical videos by the Toronto artist Kelly Mark. I’ll write more about Mark in a coming Stranger, but one of her pieces is a staged demonstration in Toronto in which protesters carry blank placards and shout stuff like, “What do we want? Nothing! When do we want it? Whenever!”
The cool thing is that the Henry decided yesterday it wanted to do its own version of the nothingness demonstration, so Seattleites will become part of Mark’s work. Tonight, starting at 7:45 pm, the Henry and Mark are staging a performance of Demonstration outside the gallery, during the opening. If you want to take part, e-mail betsey@henryart.org. You’ll have to arrive at the Henry at 7:30 pm, and the demonstration will last until 8:45, at which point you can go into the opening party for free and drink the wine. If I didn’t have unchangeable plans with smashing friends, I’d be all over it myself.
holy. shit.