Binge Art On Grant

The Japanese artist Tomoko Takahashi - one-time Turner Art Prize nominee - gets a £5,000 art grant to down bottles of lager and then try to walk across a balancing beam. Audiences at the Government-funded Chapter Arts Centre in Canton, Cardiff, see Miss Takahashi arrive on stage in high heels and a smart black business suit. For the next three hours, they watch her drink bottle after bottle, periodically lurching towards her beam and seeing how much of it she can negotiate without falling off. Fortunately for her, it is only a couple of feet high, so she is unlikely to suffer more than a twisted ankle. For the full story - click the title Irish Art