In which I am travestied by Mr Punch
Jan. 12th, 2007 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomusAn email arrived this morning from my friend Vincent Punch.
"This is Vincent the security guard at the Whitney Museum (NY)," he wrote, "whom you gave your bull-horn to at the end of last year Whitney's biennial. About a month ago, we held our Christmas staff art show and I presented a piece of work with myself as a desperate Momus (thus Fake-mus) wanna-be. It was a hit and I hope that you will also find it funny and not be offended."
The attached photo -- a brilliant piece of photoshopping, since we never stood head to head like this, dressed as rival Unreliable Tour Guides; Vincent was in his guard uniform every time I saw him -- was entitled Whitney museum security guard (Fake-mus) with Momus and captioned "PLEASE! PLEASE! (Sorry Fake-mus, there's only room for one of us)".
"Someone from the Whitney gave me an article from your blog about the "Kate Moss is not black"," Mr Punch continued, "which I find very interesting and timely, so I'm sending a copy of the piece I put in our staff art show. Thanks again for the horn, it's one of my prized possessions."
Writing back to ask Vincent's permission to run the photo on Click Opera, I said: "It looks like we're really going head to head in a sound system clash or something! It's interesting also that you relate it to the Kate Moss is not black article, because that's really making a case for travesty sometimes being a respectful or affectionate act, and here I really feel the Unreliable Tour Guide is being travestied with affection.
Thanks so much!
Nick (ex-Unreliable Tour Guide)"
"This is Vincent the security guard at the Whitney Museum (NY)," he wrote, "whom you gave your bull-horn to at the end of last year Whitney's biennial. About a month ago, we held our Christmas staff art show and I presented a piece of work with myself as a desperate Momus (thus Fake-mus) wanna-be. It was a hit and I hope that you will also find it funny and not be offended."
The attached photo -- a brilliant piece of photoshopping, since we never stood head to head like this, dressed as rival Unreliable Tour Guides; Vincent was in his guard uniform every time I saw him -- was entitled Whitney museum security guard (Fake-mus) with Momus and captioned "PLEASE! PLEASE! (Sorry Fake-mus, there's only room for one of us)".
"Someone from the Whitney gave me an article from your blog about the "Kate Moss is not black"," Mr Punch continued, "which I find very interesting and timely, so I'm sending a copy of the piece I put in our staff art show. Thanks again for the horn, it's one of my prized possessions."
Writing back to ask Vincent's permission to run the photo on Click Opera, I said: "It looks like we're really going head to head in a sound system clash or something! It's interesting also that you relate it to the Kate Moss is not black article, because that's really making a case for travesty sometimes being a respectful or affectionate act, and here I really feel the Unreliable Tour Guide is being travestied with affection.
Thanks so much!
Nick (ex-Unreliable Tour Guide)"
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Date: 2007-01-13 02:49 pm (UTC)A fan who used to work there.... sq