Radical drinks pricing policy: Yuppies pay extra

I wrote about Karierrebar earlier, a rather unique place where art space and bar room melts together.

Now they’ve launched a new pricing polity, courtesy of artist Kenneth Balfelt. According to this, the bartender will decide what you pay for your drinks. The price is set according to social status, sexual orientation, and skin color. You know, the stuff wars are fought over.

It doesn’t say if this is a temporary experiment or a permanent installation, but my guess is that…

1. it will make the bar an even more interesting place,
2. it will annoy left/right-wing minorities and mainstream alike,
3. it will generate a lot of buzz and visitors, and
4. it will probably not go on forever.

This should be interesting and fun to follow (and between us: I would hate to be the bartender making those sometimes tough choices). My advice to anyone looking for a cheap(er) night on the town: Be homeless, be gay, and don’t wear a tie.

To my best assessment, this is a fine conceptual piece of art with a strong political dimension (the latter having become almost a trademark for Balfelt). For professional reasons, naturellement, I will go there just to experience it (not wearing a tie). I really do hope this isn’t an early April’s fool…

The full price list is below:

all beers
yuppies pay kr. 5 extra

all organic sodas
hippies and activists, pay 4 kr. extra, which goes to vu (danish liberal youth–the youth organization of right wing party, venstre) with the message, “those most willing to protect the environment, pay the most!”

1/2 l guld tuborg
kr. 25 for student with student id card

kady juice | gingembre
kr. 25 for artists with ukk/bkf membership card (cady juice is based on a recipe developed by kady from agadez in niger. she receives kr. 1,70 pr sold bottle, which equals the retail price in kady’s restaurant “chez kady”.)

moët & chandon champagne
sold at cost price to sellers of the homeless newspaper “husforbi” (to be enjoyed on the premises, and only to husforbi newspaper sellers with official id card)

cafe cortado
kr. 5 for homeless people

cocktails
naughty maria
60 kr. if you show your tits, girl

kamikaze
60 kr. for asians who speak danish

nigga in vanilla
60 kr. for blacks in the company of whites

beer + soft drinks
bottled beer and soft drinks (25-33 cl.) 21 kr on the 21st of each month until 21.00h

apfelschorle
half price for homo couples who french kiss for 30 seconds

sving beer
one gratis sving beer for people with “best outfit”

afri cola
kr 20 for immigrants

Karrierrebar.com

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   Wow, I would love to see this type of installation in South Africa.

   The publicity you’d be able to generate would be incredible.

   But so would be the trouble…

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