Well, I know that in the “The Rules” it is com­mand­ed that you should nev­er accept a Sat­ur­day date after Wednes­day, but if you find your­self at an ear­ly Sat­ur­day evening loose end and you are near the Cuba quar­ter, may I sug­gest head­ing up to Enjoy gallery from 6:00pm onwards. Enjoy is cur­rent­ly hold­ing a work­shop­ping per­for­mance series and a lit­tle bird told me that there will be deli­cious tit bits for those will­ing to par­tic­i­pate in some per­for­mance art.

The face­book event descrip­tion sets the scene thus­ly:

“Any­one who has ever expe­ri­enced a live piece of per­for­mance art is like­ly to have expe­ri­enced con­fused expec­ta­tions, a sense of embar­rass­ment for the artist and or a desire for some­thing suc­cess­ful to hap­pen. Enjoy’s 2008 per­for­mance series address­es these issues for both audi­ence and artist.”

More after the jump…

Of par­tic­u­lar inter­est is the mul­ti-bird roast being per­fect­ed by Chris Brady over the month of May. The aim is to achieve a Rôti Sans Pareil.

I hear tonight’s ver­sion will involve figs, wal­nuts and a min­i­mum of three birds boned and stuffed into one anoth­er live for your view­ing and eat­ing plea­sure. Of course the birds will no longer be alive which makes this a dis­tinct­ly veg­e­tar­i­an-unfriend­ly event; don’t say you haven’t been warned. I have had the plea­sure of eat­ing the results of the exper­i­men­tal phase of the project and to avoid being likened to one of the char­ac­ters from the clas­sic sto­ry of “The Lit­tle Red Hen” I did my bit to help doc­u­ment the project by putting some pic­tures up on flickr.

I see a theme emerg­ing myself, I don’t know if the attrac­tion is the knives, the butcher’s apron or the tra­di­tion­al asso­ci­a­tion between mas­culin­i­ty and carv­ing a roast but there is a strong sense of male bond­ing or dare I say, “bro­mance” in the air at these events. As a cul­tur­al phe­nom­e­na I feel that bro­mance should be cel­e­brat­ed and cul­ti­vat­ed, espe­cial­ly if it involves men in the kitchen.

Hope­ful­ly you don’t feel the need to play hard to get and will just drop what you are doing and head on up. You can always com­fort your­self with the thought that you are fol­low­ing rule num­ber one:

Be a “Crea­ture” unlike any oth­er.