- March 11, 2004
- Posted by Marc
“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.
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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”
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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…
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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.
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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.
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/>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?
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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.”