Curator: More kids
Marketing: Kids
Education: Same
D: No, no we can’t go through the 80/20 barrier we need something else to get adults in.
C: A history show?
D: (ignores her) Any ideas?
E: Free beer on tap?
D: Budget
M: Food hall?
D: Not bad but a bit too nineties RA
C: How about drawing the crowds with an extreme artwork?
M: A what? (aside “you’ve got to be kidding me”)
C: A collective that fill the gallery with condoms inflated with laughing gas and gets the audience to burst them with pins
D: Health and safety issues
C: OK then, a guy who sands himself with an electric sander on behalf of a favourite charity inside the gallery
D: Not with the cleaners' strike we've got on he won't
C: A sniper shooting high velocity bullets across the gallery at unsuspecting visitors
D: A real sniper?
C: Sure, certified Navy SEAL
D: And the gun?
C: I’m thinking high-powered 30-caliber rifle. Maybe a Tactical 308
D: Let’s do it
M: I’m not so sure about the marketing angle
D: Huh?
M: You know … um … people getting in the way of bullets .... collateral damage .... bodies.
D: (exasperated) Ok ok then. Shoot something else then
So they did.
(Thanks for the head's up C)
