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March 11, 2004
"Five on Five" with CUE and Adam Neate
We recently invited a group of our favorite artists to ask five questions of another artist who they knew and admired. After answering the questions, the tables then become turned and five q's are sent in the opposite direction. So for our first installment of 'Five on Five", here's CUE from So Fuzzy Crew vs. Adam Neate.
Adam Neate
Adam Neate: "Yes, I have thought long and hard what questions i could possibly ask Mr Fuzzy Edwards. Here goes.. Question #1: List the first 5 words that come into your mind when you hear the word "Art" (don't cheat by thinking too much about it)
CUE: "START, SMART, FART, TART, BUMBACLART"
(my new spring/summer collection)
Adam Neate: "Question #2. With al lot of attention recently on "street artists" I feel the "street musicians" are being neglected. Who are your favorite street musicians and why?"
CUE: " I saw a really FUNNY 'street musician' the other day in the BART station. He had a harp and I'm sure he had just come from a Rennaissance fair... he was singing a kind of song that was totally 'HEY NONNY NONNY NO' inna kind of medieval stylee and he was twanging his harp tunefully and he had a kind of fake Olde English accent...It was very Monty Python but he was dead serious.... it was just really weird that he was trying to pull this off in Downtown SF... no-body was getting it at all. I quite like the guy who just goes around with a Traffic cone and plays that like a trumpet... he is rubbish.
Adam Neate: "Have you seen the red haired tramp with the harmonica?"
CUE: "No I havent, but he sounds totally sweet.... I hate accordion players on the tube, they are RUBBISH. It should be legal to hunt and kill accordion players...
Adam Neate: "Question #3. What's the weirdest most bizarre thing you have ever witnessed on the streets of London? (doesn't need to be art related)"
CUE: "I saw this guy once with a fuzzy polar fleece jumper and he had this large chunky brown rectangular design on the front of it, it had a very strange crusty texture so I got a bit closer and realised it was a large square of nutty shit that he had pressed onto the front of his top... it smelt disgusting and I just couldnt believe it was real... i mean , c'mon! w.t.f........does he get it dry cleaned? the guy dressed as a duck playing the bagpipes on hampstead heath must rank pretty high up in my 'bizarre' list.
Adam Neate: "Question #4. Are you a Sunset or Sunrise person?"
CUE: "I like Sunrises, we used to throw sunset parties in California on this beach and the sunsets there were just mindblowing... Sunsets are ok but I always get a bit sad at Sunset time, y'know , the end of a day and all that.
Adam Neate: "Question #5. If you could bottle "pure Evil" where would it come from?"
CUE: "The Source of PURE EVIL would come from a dark, pool of water that is the source of the river Styx , its in the Wood of the Suicides in Hades.Its where all of the Mung beans in the world come from and the water stinks like death.This guy below is the Mung bean guardian , you have to get past him to get to the Source.
CUE in his new Spring/Summer Collection
CUE: "Question #1. If you had a time machine what would you do with it, where would you go? (only one time travel journey allowed)"
Adam Neate: "I'm quite a Nihilistic when it comes to the past and future so I guess I would just set it to somewhere and see what happened.
CUE: "Question #2. Was it really hard work coming up with 100 different designs for the skateboards you recently painted? did it drive you nuts?"
Adam Neate: "100 boards? What 100 boards?....oh yeah that month period when I walked around my flat banging pots and pans singing the dictionary, talking to water and drinking it when they back chatted me, and wearing jumpers with nutty shit on them.
CUE: "Question #3. What is the most bizarre thing you've ever seen in London?"
Adam Neate: "A couple years ago an inebriated friend and myself had just left a squat party in the early hours of the morning. We were waiting in the street outside for a few more people to leave the party, We noticed a pile of garbage bags in the street and decided to do do somersaults into the bags for fun. A complete stranger who happened to be watching decided to mimic us by doing a front flip into the same pile of bags. There was a loud crash and when the guy got up we noticed he had jumped on to a pile of broken glass, he then looked down to realize he had a 10 inch shard of glass sticking out of either side of his wrist. So I made the stupid decision to pull it out. It was like a scene from Monty Python, blood was flying everywhere. We managed to find some insulation tape in the squat and bandage his arm closed and send him on his way home. The bizarre thing was the guy never once spoke or screamed through out the whole time, just stood there gazing into space."
CUE: "Question #4. What superhero do you most relate to, and why? what super-powers do you have?
Adam Neate: "Its gotta be Super man 3 when gets really pissed off and starts flicking peanuts, boozing and pushes the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he should of just carried on destroying things, would of been allot more of a funny film. My only mentionable super power is the inept ability to give birth to plague infested invisible ducks.
CUE: "Question #5. Can you please analyze modern contemporary culture and tell me how your work plays a significant part in the remains of our post-modernist culture ?
Adam Neate: "Mmmm... Modern contemporary art in some ways is allot like a time machine full of invisible ducks...it's already been used in the past and it stinks of farts."
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