[PROJECTS] "THE EVENING BEFORE THE MORNING AFTER" AN EVENING BY MARIO GARCIA TORRES @ BISTROTHEQUE IN LONDON

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Dear Friends,
The Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution and Bistrotheque are happy to invite you to
THE EVENING BEFORE THE MORNING AFTER an evening by Mario Garcia Torres
Friday 14, October 2011, 8PM-midnight
Bistrotheque Bar, 23-27 Wadeson Street, London E2 http://www.bistrotheque.com/
Music selection for the night by Mr. Craig Garrett

For THE EVENING BEFORE THE MORNING AFTER, Garcia Torres asked artists and curators to send or select a recipe to be included in the bar's cocktail list for the night: "I propose to present a list of artists cocktails in the bar, and I would love - be honoured-, if you accept this invitation. I am asking you to send me the recipe or name or whatever of a cocktail that you like, or that you have mixed or customised yourself to be included in this menu, and which would either have your name or a title that you wish to put to it. How does this sound? It would be amazing if you accept to participate. Find below an intro text that I wrote for it, and that will be printed in the cocktail menu. Looking very much forward to hear from you. All my best, Mario"

Some of the cocktails to be served on the night might include:

The CWE by Cerith Wyn Evans
Equal parts of Evian and Bdoit, slice of cucumber

The Rejection by Aleksandra Mir
Ice cold sparkling water, wedge of lime, no ice cubes

Clear Consciousness by Julieta Aranda
Vodka, cucumber, basil and mint, soda water

Counter-Insurgency by Claire Bishop
A conservative glass of chilled Rosé

The Sprouzo by Pauline Daly and Rebecca Warren
Sprite, Ouzo

Gloria by Rosalind Nashashibi
Tequila, Prosecco and Triple sec

Cheeky Vimto by Sarah McCrory
1 bottle WKD Blue, shot of Port, ice

The Bloody Gin and Tonic Mary by Jonathan Monk
Gin, Vodka, tonic water, tomato juice, equal amounts of each with lemon juice, lime juice and ice

Crystal Meth by Giles Round
Champagne, Vodka, pomegranate juice and cassis

Nailgroni by Phillipa Horan
A traditional Negroni with an ice cube in it which has a small piece of nail in it
You have to drink the Nailgroni quickly before the ice melts so you don't swallow a piece of my nail

Publish and be Slammed by Kit Hammonds
salt rimmed Tequila shot with a lime Vodka jelly at the bottom of the glass
In the jelly would be floating some letters cut from Frieze magazine

La Cruz del Sur by Manuela Ribadeneira
Cachaca, five ice cubes (one for each star)
Look south literally or metaphorically while drinking

Dry Martini by Matthieu Laurette
Gin, dry vermouth, olive (no lemon twist nor vodka!)

Sabor a Mi by MGT
Prosecco, Cynar, Gin, St. Germain, sugar water, orange peel

The Klein International Blue by Yves Klein
Gin Bombay Sapphire, Curaçao Amerlalis, Cointreau, lemon juice

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THE EVENING BEFORE THE MORNING AFTER
a small show, or gathering, or event-exhibition, or bar night, or cocktail menu by Mario Garcia Torres

Alcohol (as well as drugs) consumption have been historically, and most probable mistakenly, connected to the creative act. Yet there has been a number of visual artists that have resorted to the old idea of drinking and getting drunk to create their work, both as a medium and as its “content”. The English duo Gilbert & George in Balls: The Evening Before the Morning After - Drinking Sculpture (1972) took blurred pictures of themselves while getting drunk, it is from this work that this night and cocktail menu take its title from. In another of their iconic works Gordon’s Gin Makes Us Drunk (1972), the couple is seen on a video piece indulging in the mentioned spirit. Similarly, the entire Andy Warhol film Drink (1965) is a long take of the filmmaker Emile de Antonio downing a bottle of whiskey. The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends -I wouldn't limit it to only such beverage- is the Highest Form of Ar (1970), declared Tom Morioni as he inaugurated what now is called a social situation type of artwork.

By chance, and several years before, the experience of art through a cocktail was extended after the fact, some would say into the morning after. Those who attended the opening of the French artist Yves Klein at the Galerie Iris Clert in Paris on April 29, 1959 could acknowledge it. For this exhibition the space had been painted with white enamel and stripped of all objects and furniture except for a white, empty cabinet. The almost bare gallery could not be seen from outside as the windows had been painted blue and the door was covered with a heavy curtain of the same colour, with two Republican Guards keeping watch over it. Nevertheless the artist had arranged for a specific cocktail made with Gin, Cointreau and Curacao to be served. To the French artist delight -who had been painting deep blue monochrome paintings made out of a self invented recipe for such pigment- all who enjoyed the drink eventually found their pee stained blue.

Thinking about this and proposing, again, to use the idea of the cocktail as a medium, or more so to use the mixology that such a drink require to provoke a specific aesthetic experience, or... maybe just as a decoy to have a good conversation, I have invited a number of artists friends to present their own cocktail, either one that they like, have customised or that have put together themselves. As an honorary place, the menu will close with the historic blue cocktail.

MGT


THE EVENING BEFORE THE MORNING AFTER is a monthly event that takes place at Celeste House in Mexico City. http://celeste.com.mx/

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