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.