After meeting my friend Brent at the Cristin Tierney Gallery in Chelsea (right on time for our 4:30 appointment) we walked in and got a tour of the MK Guth show “Shout, Recount, Get Drunk” from the gallery associate director, Candace Moeller.
It was sparse to say the least. A back room contained two small shelf projects with collected objects—pointed books, a banner, a camera—that represented two dinners “to plan a revolution to,” which will take place privately later in the exhibition. But Brent and I were there to participate in a different public performance by Guth, the exactly-as-it-sounds artwork titled Instructions for drinking with a Friend.
The instructions read as such: bring a friend to the gallery, sit across from each other at a table, choose a topic you rarely discuss, read a Charles Baudelaire poem together and then start drinking a (provided) bottle of whiskey.
