I attended the opening of BYOB on December 4th and it was definitely not what I expected. The flyer for the exhibition was a random array of text -- nothing gave away a theme so I figured once I arrived I would be able to tell what the event was and what the artists were attempting to do. I was wrong. Upon arrival I walked past different records that I didn't understand what I was supposed to do with them until one of the artists came over and showed me. Once I was showed it was fun to go around and try out different pieces, but I didn't like the fact that I was confused until someone was gracious enough to explain what the pieces were. I was even more confused when I went into the rooms with the different projectors running. I thought the setup was interesting and it was a lot of fun to walk around the room and look the different projections, but I didn't understand the art and that took a lot of the fun out of it. There was no running theme to any of the projections. Nothing tied it all together. A lot of them actually looked like different clips from the same TV show. While it was fun to get to stand in the middle of the room and look around at all the different projections, not understanding what the artists were trying to do didn't let me fully appreciate the art. The flyer for the event said it was holiday themed, but I still can't tell if that was supposed to be the main focus of the art or just a holiday quirk for the event. There was a decorated Christmas tree and some of the projections were playing holiday themed things but it wasn't enough for me to feel like the actual theme of the even was about the holidays. I'm glad I went to this event because it was cool to see (and there was free food), but I wish there would have been more of an explanation so that us viewers understood what was going on.
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