That was very good Pez! What was the source?
cecil
"narvis & ...pez" wrote:
> "in the near future, plans may be developed which take
> their cue from games and atlhetics, where the regulations
> provide for a variety of moves that make the outcome always uncertaint. a
> score might be written, so general in its
> instructions that it could be adapted to basic types
> of terrain such as oceans, woods, cities, farms,; and to basic
> kind of performers such as teenagers, old people, children,
> matrons, and so on, including insects, animals and the weather. this could
> be printed and mail-ordered for use by anyone who wanted it. greorge brecht
> has been interested in such posibilities for some time now. his sparse
> scores read like this:
>
> DIRECTION
> Arrange to observe a sign
> indicating direction of travel.
>
> ¬ travel in the indicated direction
>
> • travel in another direction
>
> "but so far they have been distributed to friends, who perform them at
> their discretion and without ceremony, certainly they are aware of the
> pholosophic allusions to zen buddhism, of the subtle wit and childlike
> simplicity of the activites indicated. most of all, they are aware of the
> responsability it places on the performer to make something of the
> situation or not. as we mentioned before in connection with another of
> brecht's pieces, this implications its the most radical potential in all of
> the work discussed in this book. beyond a small group of initiates, there
> are few who could derive pleasure from going ahead and doing them without
> self-cosciousness. in the case of those happenings with more detailed
> instructions or more expanded action, the artist must be present at every
> moment , directing and participating , for the tradition is too young for
> the complete stranger to know what to do with such plans if he got them."
> (alan kaprow)
>
> At 10:16 am -0600 1/11/00, cecil touchon wrote:
> Three Aqueous Events
> ice
> water
> steam
>
> George Brecht 1961
>
> That the simplicity of it causes literally any action that includes these three
> states of water to be a variation on his work. That's kind of like staking off
> wilderness, one stake in each of its four corners, and saying that because you
> have placed these four stakes anything that happens within them is trespassing.
> Hogwash!
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